The Friars Golf Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831483086
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Mercer Island, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4252608033
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sports Associations &Training Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,883
- Expenses
- $76,911
- Assets
- $107,707
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- RUSS HITTINGER (CHAIRMAN)
- GUSTAVO BESSALEL (VICE CHAIR)
- NICK EBER (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation has entered into a partnership with youth on course, a charitable organization that is focused on introducing young people to the game of golf. The friars foundation mission is to support young pros attempting to succeed in tournament golf, and to raise funds for yoc. The young pros in the friars system provide fundraising services for yoc in exchange for compensation to support them as they travel to and compete in tournaments.the friars foundation was established to do 2 things - provide support for disadvantaged young professional golfers, and also to provide financial support for youth on course, a charity whose mission is to get disadvantaged kids exposed to the game of golf. All the money is raised from friar members or by friar members, and the foundation does not receive support from corporate industry or any other outside entity.
What it reported doing in 2025
The friar golf foundation's mission is to expand golf's reach and impact, focusing primarily on increasing access to golf for youth. The foundation pursues this mission by curating opportunities for charitable work and fundraising by members of the friars community and friars young professionals (young pros or yp), a select group of aspiring professional golfers striving to reach the highest levels of competitive golf.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.4; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 88.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $193K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.