California · Nonprofit
YOUTH ON COURSE
YOUTH ON COURSE (California) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,291,509 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,005,550). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 164
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Youth on Course does
Mission
Youth on Course provides a continuum of services including subsidized course access, internships for high school/college students, college scholarships and an alumni program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth on Course: youth program designed to increase the accessibility and affordability of golf. The organization subsidizes rounds of golf for youths at participating golf courses. Members can participate until 19 years of age.
$8,551,278 spent42% of program spendingYouth on Course scholarships: the Youth on Course staff reviews scholarship applications and evaluates each applicant based on academic performance, interest in golf, work experience and financial need. Qualified applicants are interviewed by staff, and program partners, and selected based on the quality of their credentials, answers to interview questions, and financial need. 21 college scholarships were awarded in 2025.
$390,706 spentof which $358,600 as grants2% of program spendingFor $20/year Youth on Course alumni can join the alumni program which unites thousands of young adults nationwide who share a connection with the game of golf, and can access exclusive benefits from corporate partners, attend events and search for jobs.
$70,350 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$11,182,666 spentof which $10,680,456 as grants55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,195,000.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $17M (+16%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Rick Paschal
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $407k → $1.3M.
24 of 164 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $825k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northern California Golf Association - T). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUTH ON COURSE raised.
From the IRS filings of YOUTH ON COURSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 164 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 ON COURSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 YOUTH ON COURSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 31% · 2019 31% · 2020 26% · 2021 17% · 2022 13% · 2023 10% — 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
49% of YOUTH ON COURSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
62% of YOUTH ON COURSE'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Organizations like YOUTH ON COURSE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Northern California Golf Association · exempt
- Poppy Holding Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH ON COURSE: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUTH ON COURSE?
- YOUTH ON COURSE (California) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,291,509 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,005,550). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUTH ON COURSE have?
- IRS filings report 164 organizations giving $7,291,509 in grants to YOUTH ON COURSE, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH ON COURSE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,005,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH ON COURSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 164 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