The Texas Golf Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 750715222
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Addison, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2144688942
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,324,522
- Expenses
- $7,450,623
- Assets
- $8,454,769
- Liabilities
- $2,135,216
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
50 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STACY DENNIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LEE SANDLIN (PRESIDENT)
- RICK TURNER (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- PAUL MARCHAND (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
- JONATHAN SHIPLEY (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JIM BROWN (PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- STACY DENNIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $375,755 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the playing and advancement of the royal and ancient game of golf in Texas.
What it reported doing in 2025
Tga conducts organized golf events for competitive and recreational golfers in every region of the state. These events include statewide and regional championships, qualifying rounds for tga and usga championships, managed events for colleges and the women's southern golf association, fun golf play days and beginning golf outings. In 2025, nearly 11,000 applications were received for 147 events comprising more than 230 rounds of golf played by almost 3,700 unique golfers. Tga staff were on site at host clubs for almost 370 days to conduct these events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.5%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 91.5%; rating input score 92; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 97.4%; rating input score 97; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.5% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 38 of 39 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $376K · 50 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.