Golf Gives Back

Analysis

Golf Gives Back is a registered charity in United States, based in Evansville, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Golf Gives Back reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.3m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from September 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.2m to $2.4m (+6.2%), an average of +1.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 113%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Golf Gives Back sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference ($2.4m), National Association of Christian Athletes ($2.4m) and Broomfield Junior Soccer Club ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% and program service revenue 50% of the total. At year end it held assets of $339k against liabilities of $890k, net assets of -$551k.