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YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC

YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,179 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($119,950). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$818k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$364k
Net assets
$942k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Youth Golf of Nwa Inc does

Mission

To positively impact the lives of youth through programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values, and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Participants took part in several character development activities through our golf and life skills experience. We offered group classes, summer camps, mentorship programs, competitive leagues and leadership councils to kids and teens of all backgrounds. We offered most of these programs at inexpensive rates or through scholarships. We also executed a large outreach program, working with over 20,000 kids in elementary schools, churchs and other youth centers to teach them leadership skills and healthy habits through golf. The first tee nine core values are the foundation of our teaching curriculum and includes lessons on how to set and achieve goals, manage anger and frustration, to achieve personal success and to live a healthy lifestyle.

    $402,591 spent$320,428 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $402,591.

02The 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 ($440k) Expenses 100 ($610k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 84 ($369k) Expenses 106 ($644k) Net assets 75 ($863k)2019 Revenue 118 ($519k) Expenses 116 ($708k) Net assets 58 ($674k)2020 Revenue 155 ($682k) Expenses 111 ($680k) Net assets 59 ($678k)2021 Revenue 196 ($861k) Expenses 129 ($789k) Net assets 90 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 169 ($743k) Expenses 131 ($800k) Net assets 81 ($935k)2023 Revenue 186 ($818k) Expenses 139 ($848k) Net assets 78 ($904k)2024 Revenue 178 ($783k) Expenses 132 ($806k) Net assets 76 ($881k)2025 Revenue 186 ($818k) Expenses 124 ($757k) Net assets 81 ($942k)
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Revenue (186)Expenses (124)Net assets (81)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+34%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

52% of YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$170k
’17
−$275k
’18
−$189k
’19
$2k
’20
$72k
’21
−$57k
’22
−$30k
’23
−$23k
’24
$61k
’25
1.0
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

Isaac Tellez

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed151516101012101010
Joined·+7+2+1+0+6+0+7+2
No longer listed·71704272
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $95k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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

YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC.

33%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 66% · 2022 61% · 2023 53% — 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

60% of YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 5 states in all.

NY
CT
AR
GA
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 37%Fundraising 10%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

70%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AR

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Questions and answers

Who funds YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC?
YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,179 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($119,950). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $364,179 in grants to YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC?
WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $119,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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