Skip to content
Plinth
← Funding

Arkansas · Nonprofit

YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS (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.

$783k
Revenue FY2024
9
Funders on record
$364k
Grants received
$881k
Net assets
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%

Against its field

YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS has grown faster than half of the 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · 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 ($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)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (178)Expenses (132)Net assets (76)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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS’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. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$170k
17
$275k
18
$189k
19
$2k
20
$72k
21
$57k
22
$30k
23
$23k
24
0.9
months of
reserve
02Who 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 DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS’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 DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS 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 DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.

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 DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS'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 DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS 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

20
21
22
23
Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 9 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 YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

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 Arkansas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

45% of spending goes to programs.

Program 45%Management 43%Fundraising 12%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

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 YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS?
YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS (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 DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $364,179 in grants to YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH GOLF OF NWA INC DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS?
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 DBA FIRST TEE - NORTHWEST ARKANSAS 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.

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 9funders 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