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THE WATSON YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION

EIN 85-2444561 OVERLAND PARK, KS

Revenue 2024
$396,118
Expenses 2024
$392,928

Program services were 97.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
9225 INDIAN CREEK PARKWAY 1100A

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO ASSIST AND SUPPORT EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE POPULARITY OF AND PARTICIPATION BY YOUTH IN THE SPORT OF GOLF. TO ADVANCE SCIENCE AND EDUCATION ON ISSUES RELATED TO YOUTH ACTIVITIES AND SPORTS PARTICIPATION. TO HEIGHTEN PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE BENEFITS OF GOLF AND TO FURTHER THE GENERAL PUBLIC'S KNOWLEDGE AND HISTORY OF THE GAME OF GOLF.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ASSIST AND SUPPORT EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE POPULARITY AND PARTICIPATION BY YOUTH IN THE SPORT OF GOLF

  • PROVIDED FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE WATSON LINKS MENTORS FOUNDATION. THE WATSON LINKS NETWORK PROVIDES FREE GOLF COURSE PLAY TO YOUTH ACROSS THE COUNTRY THROUGH A GROWING NUMBER OF LOCAL PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $345,000 · Grants $345,000

  • PROVIDED FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY, SPONSORED BY THE JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY, INC. THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE PROGRAM IS TO IMPACT THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE GREATER KANSAS CITY AREA BY PROVIDING LEARNING FACILITIES AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT PROMOTE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND LIFE-ENHANCING VALUES THROUGH THE GAME OF GOLF.

    Expenses $14,500 · Grants $14,500

  • PROVIDED FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO NCGA FOUNDATION DBA YOUTH ON COURSE. THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE PROGRAM IS TO ENSURE THAT ALL YOUNG PEOPLE CAN ACCESS THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF GOLF.

    Expenses $15,000 · Grants $15,000

  • PROVIDED FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE FIRST TEE OF OMAHA. THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE PROGRAM IS TO IMPACT THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY INSTILLING LIFE-ENHANCING VALUES THROUGH EDUCATION.

    Expenses $10,000 · Grants $10,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MICHAEL R THIESSEN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THOMAS S WATSON

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDY FISHER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID FLANDERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRANK H KIRK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL B WATSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MEG WATSON CARR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK R ALLEN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY D GILSON

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $396,118
    Expenses
    $392,928
    Contributions
    $396,112
    Grants paid
    $384,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $193,253
    Expenses
    $181,956
    Contributions
    $193,252
    Grants paid
    $176,300
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $70,000
    Expenses
    $75,858
    Contributions
    $70,000
    Grants paid
    $70,000

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

  • 2025 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $367,002
    Expenses
    $381,811
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,600
    Expenses
    $5,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,180

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $80,350
    Expenses
    $73,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,191

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

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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 2024 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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.