Arizona · Nonprofit
SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC
SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Southwestern Golf Association Inc does
Mission
Southwestern Golf Association SWGA consisting of volunteer Directors existence dates to 1915. The SWGA sponsors and runs an annual amateur mens tournament. 202 marked the 107th tournament and a change in format to dual men and women tournaments consisting of mainly amateur college golfers. Tournament revenue is received from sponsor contributions and player entry fees to cover expenses.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
2024 - was the 109th Annual Southwestern Amateur mens and womens division championship played at the Desert Mountain Club Outlaw Course Scottsdale Arizona. In 2024 the Southwestern Womens Amateur Championship was named as an inaugural member of the Womens Elite Amateur Golf Series WEAGS created as part of a mission to align the top competitive amateur events in the United States. There are currently five amateur womens championships that are part of the Womens Elite Amateur Golf Series.
$2,100 spent37% of program spendingMarketing and Recruitment of players providing them the opportunity to learn and compete in the sport of golf
$2,130 spent37% of program spendingRevenue remaining after the tournament expenses are paid or contributed to various non-profit organizations: --Contribution to the Junior Golf Association of Arizona offers youth the opportunity to learn and achieve the experience of playing golf. - Fellowship of Christian Athletes
$1,500 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,730.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $27k to $35k (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
37% of SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lee Ann Finger
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
81% of SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,891 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,891 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC?
- SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $36,000 in grants to SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC?
- THUNDERBIRD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing