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Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina
Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina (South Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,028 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ($137,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina has grown faster than half of the 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
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.
- American Junior Golf Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way of the Piedmont Incshared funders
- Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $8k → $84k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina’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
Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% 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 Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 45% · 2019 39% · 2020 49% · 2021 41% · 2022 56% · 2023 47% — 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
20% of Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
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 24 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Junior Golf Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchGA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Piedmont Incshared fundersSC · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ladies Professional Golf Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Country Club of North Carolina Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pga Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ncga Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Durham Sports Commissionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Black Foundation Incshared fundersSC · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundationshared fundersSC · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
- John I Smith Charities Incshared fundersSC · backs 16 organizations that share your funders
- United Way of Greenville County Incshared fundersSC · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
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 Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina?
- Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina (South Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,028 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ($137,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $435,028 in grants to Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina?
- PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $137,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 24funders 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