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Ncga Foundation

Monterey, CA · EIN 94-3108575. Reported 83 grants totalling $5,307,699 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

35organizations funded
$21,714median reported grant
$5,307,699granted, 2021-2024
76%of grantees funded again the next year
16%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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 16% 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. 76% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $21,714. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $53,497; the smallest was $5,068 and the largest $864,873. 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
18 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
29 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
15 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
6 grants
$250,000 Or More
6 grants

42 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $4,243,281 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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
Southern California Golf AssociationStudio City, CA$874,445222024
Minnesota Golf Association IncEdina, MN$724,328442024
Georgia State Golf Association IncAtlanta, GA$541,222332024
Golf Association of PhiladelphiaBroomall, PA$371,294222024
Carolinas Golf AssociationSouthern Pnes, NC$366,665442024
Junior Golf Association of Arizona IncPhoenix, AZ$356,840442024
Virginia State Golf Association IncMidlothian, VA$346,527442024
The Colorado Golf Association IncGreenwood Vlg, CO$320,235222024
Massachusetts Golf Association IncNorton, MA$206,867442024
Golf Association of Michigan Foundation IncFarmington Hills, MI$168,865442024
Maryland State Golf AssociationBaltimore, MD$154,907442024
Alabama Golf Association IncHoover, AL$131,899442024
Kentucky Golf FoundationLouisville, KY$115,626112024
Wisconsin State Golf Association IncWest Allis, WI$108,225332024
Central Links GolfLenexa, KS$86,803542024
Utah Golf FoundationSalt Lake City, UT$84,948442024
Oregon Golf AssociationWoodburn, OR$43,384332024
World Golf Foundation IncPonte Vedra, FL$40,000442024
Eat Learn Play FoundationOakland, CA$30,000112023
Maine Golf House IncCumberland, ME$29,250112024
Miami Valley Golf Association IncDayton, OH$21,765112023
New Jersey State Golf AssociationKenilworth, NJ$21,714112022
Texas Golf AssociationAddison, TX$21,664222023
Ncga Ic -Monterey Peninsula FdnMonterey, CA$20,000112021
Junior Golf Alliance of ColoradoGreenwood Village, CO$18,751222022
Iowa Golf AssociationNorwalk, IA$14,764222022
Metropolitan Golf Association FoundationElmsford, NY$14,405222022
North Florida Section Professional Golfers AssociationKissimmee, FL$13,392112023
South Carolina Golf AssociationColumbia, SC$12,500112021
Future Citizens FoundationSalinas, CA$12,000222024
Sun Country Junior Golf Foundation IncRio Rancho, NM$9,492112024
Junior Golf Association of Northern CaliforniaModesto, CA$7,000112021
Centers for Equity and Success IncSan Francisco, CA$6,461112021
San Francisco First TeeSan Francisco, CA$6,241112022
Sun Country Golf Association-IncRio Rancho, NM$5,220112024

22 of 35 (63%) 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.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 35 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.

Recreation & Sports
11 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Education
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202121$564,774$16,869
202220$499,644$16,275
202320$511,449$21,270
202422$3,731,832$57,582

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

18% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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.

California
$956K
Minnesota
$724K
Georgia
$541K
Pennsylvania
$371K
North Carolina
$367K
Arizona
$357K
Virginia
$347K
Colorado
$339K

Down to the city

Studio City, CA
$874K
Edina, MN
$724K
Atlanta, GA
$541K
Broomall, PA
$371K
Southern Pnes, NC
$367K
Phoenix, AZ
$357K

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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.

United States Golf Association19 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation6 shared recipientsAmerican Junior Golf Foundation Inc5 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 $21,714 -- 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 California.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Ncga Foundation'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 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 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: 1 Lower Ragsdale Drive 1110, Monterey, CA, 93940.

EIN 94-3108575 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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