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Golfers' Charitable Association Inc

Towson, MD · EIN 52-6074460. Reported 31 grants totalling $225,319 to 21 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

21organizations funded
$7,500median reported grant
$225,319granted, 2021-2024
50%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Golfers' Charitable Association Inc, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E22J) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 21 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $7,500. Half of what it reported fell between $6,000 and $8,000; the smallest was $5,070 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
29 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Mother Seton Academy IncBaltimore, MD$24,956332024
Womens Education Alliance IncTowson, MD$22,775332024
Saint Ignatius Loyola AcademyBaltimore, MD$20,542332024
The William S Baer School Partnership Board IncBaltimore, MD$17,500222022
Fellowship of Christian AthletesKansas City, MO$14,000222024
2ND Chances Outreach Ministry Worldwide IncOwings Mills, MD$13,100222024
The First Tee of Baltimore IncCockeysville, MD$10,140222024
CASA of Baltimore County IncTowson, MD$10,000112022
New Song Community Learning Ctr IncBaltimore, MD$9,000112022
Grace Medical Center IncOwings Mills, MD$8,845112023
Cristo Rey Jesuit High SchoolBaltimore, MD$8,000112024
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Maryland IncBaltimore, MD$7,800112024
Baltimore Hunger Project LLCLuthvle Timon, MD$7,500112024
Next One Up Foundation IncTowson, MD$7,500112023
Nexus Family HealingPlymouth, MN$7,305112023
Stonier Scholarship IncTowson, MD$6,800112022
The Loyola School IncBaltimore, MD$6,750112024
Presbyterian Church USALondonderry, NH$6,000112024
Uncuffed Ministries IncBaltimore, MD$5,961112021
Comfort Cases IncGaithersburg, MD$5,500112024
Maryland School for the BlindBaltimore, MD$5,345112021

7 of 21 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 21 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Youth Development
4 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Recreation & Sports
1 org
Health Care
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20215$32,181$5,961
20228$65,800$8,250
20236$41,762$7,402
202412$85,576$7,300

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

88% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Maryland
$198K
Missouri
$14K
Minnesota
$7K
New Hampshire
$6K

Down to the city

Baltimore, MD
$106K
Towson, MD
$47K
Owings Mills, MD
$22K
Kansas City, MO
$14K
Cockeysville, MD
$10K
Luthvle Timon, MD
$8K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsT Rowe Price Program for Charitable12 shared recipientsBaltimore Community Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsThe United Way of Central Maryland Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $7,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Golfers' Charitable Association Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: P O Box 5404, Towson, MD, 21285.

EIN 52-6074460 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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