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TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN

TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,188 to it, the largest being PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($288,106). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$385k
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
$451k
Grants received
$439k
Net assets
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%

Against its field

TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve14.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($201k) Expenses 100 ($182k) Net assets 100 ($196k)2018 Revenue 80 ($161k) Expenses 116 ($211k) Net assets 74 ($146k)2019 Revenue 83 ($167k) Expenses 102 ($185k) Net assets 65 ($128k)2020 Revenue 86 ($174k) Expenses 90 ($164k) Net assets 70 ($138k)2021 Revenue 187 ($376k) Expenses 95 ($173k) Net assets 173 ($340k)2022 Revenue 122 ($245k) Expenses 117 ($213k) Net assets 190 ($372k)2023 Revenue 141 ($283k) Expenses 142 ($258k) Net assets 202 ($397k)2024 Revenue 192 ($385k) Expenses 189 ($343k) Net assets 224 ($439k)
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Revenue (192)Expenses (189)Net assets (224)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,078 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
17
$50k
18
$18k
19
$10k
20
$203k
21
$32k
22
$25k
23
$42k
24
14
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $86k → $41k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)72% 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 TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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

TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN.

64%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 85% · 2019 59% · 2020 76% · 2021 59% · 2022 48% · 2023 52%diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

43% of TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

72% of TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $124k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
OH
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $327k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 18%Fundraising 7%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

59%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: 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 TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN?
TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,188 to it, the largest being PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($288,106). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $451,188 in grants to TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN?
PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $288,106 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing