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CAROLINAS GOLF ASSOCIATION

EIN 56-0509290 SOUTHERN PNES, NC

Revenue 2025
$9,246,018
Expenses 2025
$8,918,423

Program services were 89.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N6A
Classification
1000
Street
140 RIDGE RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • THOMAS THORPE

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $6,750
    From this org
    $6,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CHARLES LYNCH

    LEGAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • KELLY MILLER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAWRENCE HICKS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARION MOORE

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIKE SMITH

    1ST PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RICK RIDDLE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRENDA KUEHN

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DANA HALLIDAY

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DILLARD PRUITT

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FRANK GOLDEN

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GREGG JONES

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOE HACKLER

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BILLY WEST

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL SIMS

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RICHARD DOSEK

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RUSSELL COLEMAN

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHELDON HILAIRE

    COMMITTEE MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOSEPH ANDY PRIEST

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $241,907
    From this org
    $239,907
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $239,907
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,000
    Filer's total
    $241,907

  • BENJAMIN BONCELLA

    TOP FINANCIAL OFFICIAL

    Total calculated
    $98,755
    From this org
    $98,755
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $9,246,018
    Expenses
    $8,918,423
    Contributions
    $130,724
    Grants paid
    $43,003
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $9,546,825
    Expenses
    $9,049,581
    Contributions
    $299,657
    Grants paid
    $259,345
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,731,590
    Expenses
    $7,884,901
    Contributions
    $333,224
    Grants paid
    $227,750
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,851,436
    Expenses
    $7,449,579
    Contributions
    $373,791
    Grants paid
    $261,965

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,597,187
    Expenses
    $6,500,134
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,201,901

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,916,224
    Expenses
    $5,379,566
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,029,136

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,846,965
    Expenses
    $4,722,834
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,758,525

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION

    $261,965

    2022 TO FUND TURF GRASS RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIPS AND TO ASSIST JUNIOR GOLF AND TO FACILITATE THE GROWTH OF GOLF IN THE CAROLINAS.

  • CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION

    $259,345

    2024 TO FUND TURFGRASS RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIPS AND TO ASSIST JUNIOR GOLF AND GROWTH OF THE GAME INITIATIVES.

  • Carolinas Golf Foundation

    $227,750

    2023 To fund turfgrass research and scholarships and to assist junior golf and growth of the game initiatives.

  • CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION

    $43,003

    2025 TO FUND TURFGRASS RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIPS AND TO ASSIST JUNIOR GOLF AND GROWTH OF THE GAME INITIATIVES.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.