Junior Golf Association of Arizona Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860933102
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6029446168
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $329,255
- Expenses
- $280,062
- Assets
- $1,706,794
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT MCNEVIN (PRESIDENT/SEC/TREAS)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT MCNEVIN (PRESIDENT/SEC/TREAS): $148,452 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation is a supporting organization to junior golf association of Arizona, inc.
What it reported doing in 2025
The build a team program encourages participation in golf beginning at the high school level. Most of Arizona's high schools do not have thriving girls' golf teams populated by experienced teenaged girl golfers. Resources and experienced coaches are limited. We powerfully and positively impact participation in golf as a team sport by girls in Arizona high schools by creating the opportunity for girls to learn the game from professional instructors, supporting the work of dedicated coaches financially and emotionally, and encouraging the long-term support of the community.(continued on schedule o)the foundation funds/helps cover expenses for Arizona junior girls to compete in national junior golf tournaments. Expenses include tournament entry fees, flights, hotel rooms, rental cars, etc. The foundation funds/helps cover expenses for Arizona girls to compete in national traveling teams events, specifically the girls junior america's cup. Jgaa conducts the joanne winter silver belle championship which iss an all womens/girls golf tournament, hosted in Arizona, december 28-30 annually ( http://www.azsilverbelle.com/)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 55% for direct work, and 45% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.9%; rating input score 95; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.9%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.09; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.1% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $217K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.