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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 $443,528 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ($137,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $417k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $444k
- Net assets
- $215k
What Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina does
Mission
To positively impact the lives of young people by providing character education programs that promote core values and healthy habits through the game of golf.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Golf Clinics for youth, emphasizing character development, life skills and healthy habits.
$252,854 spent$70,671 earned by the program78% of program spendingCommunity outreach, including purchase, preparation and distribution of educational materials.
$62,616 spent19% of program spendingPurchase, preparation and distribution of educational materials in support of life skills and physical skills training programs and events for students within school curriculum.
$10,285 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $325,755.
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.
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 $233k to $300k (+29%).
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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Michael Pius
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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) — 22% 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 84% 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 states 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
Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina has grown faster than half of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina
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 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
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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 $443,528 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 $443,528 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 24 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