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USGA FOUNDATION

USGA FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,326,679 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($500,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$5.6M
Funders on record
68
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$12M
21/68 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Usga Foundation does

Mission

The foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the usga's mission to champion and advance the game of golf, everywhere it is played. Its purpose is soley charitable, scientific, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Usga Foundation shall accomplish these purposes by providing financial support to the united states golf association and engaging in programs, activities and projects designed to accomplish the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the united states golf association.

    $3,593,112 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,593,112.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets -50 ($-445664)2021 Revenue 331 ($4.2M) Expenses 165 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($892k)2022 Revenue 463 ($5.8M) Expenses 145 ($2.5M) Net assets 423 ($3.8M)2023 Revenue 589 ($7.4M) Expenses 173 ($2.9M) Net assets 1081 ($9.6M)2024 Revenue 445 ($5.6M) Expenses 212 ($3.6M) Net assets 1321 ($12M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (445)Expenses (212)Net assets (1321)Peer revenue range

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 $14M to $29M (+104%).

$1.3M
$5.7M
$14M
$29M
$42M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

82% of USGA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$446k
’20
$1.3M
’21
$3.4M
’22
$4.5M
’23
$2.0M
’24
0.6
months of
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

Charlie Pagnam

Executive director & cpo

Board chair

Anthony K Anderson

Chairman, director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed89897
Joined·+2+0+2+0
No longer listed·1112
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $76k → $665k.

14 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 USGA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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

USGA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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

54% 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 USGA FOUNDATION.

21%
largest funder
59%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 99% · 2019 97% · 2020 95% · 2021 24% · 2022 41% · 2023 75% — 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

10% of USGA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

53% of USGA FOUNDATION'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 23 states.

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

’18
’19
’20
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’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

USGA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin35% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)45% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like USGA FOUNDATION

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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
20%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 48 states

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VT
NH
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ID
MN
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Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • United States Golf Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds USGA FOUNDATION?
USGA FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,326,679 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($500,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does USGA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $2,326,679 in grants to USGA FOUNDATION, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of USGA FOUNDATION?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like USGA FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 68 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