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THOMAS S WATSON SUPPORTINGFOUNDATION

EIN 20-3982761 OVERLAND PARK, KS

Largest nonprofits in Kansas

Revenue 2025
$257,514
Expenses 2025
$610,049

Program services were 88.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N116
Classification
1200
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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE CORPORATION INTENDS TO DISPLAY OR ARRANGE FOR THE DISPLAY OF GOLF-RELATED AND OTHER MEMORABILIA OF THOMAS S. WATSON TO MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO FURTHER THE GENERAL PUBLIC'S KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE LIFE AND CAREER OF THOMAS S. WATSON AND THE HISTORY OF GOLF IN GENERAL AND TO SUPPORT SUCH QUALIFIED ORGANIZATIONS DEDICATED TO PROVIDING YOUNG INDIVIDUALS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY, PLEASURE AND SATISFACTION THE GAME OF GOLF CAN PROVIDE. THE CURRENT PUBLICLY SUPPORTED ORGANIZATION LISTED IN THE GOVERNING DOCUMENT IS THE WATSON LINKS MENTORS FOUNDATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO DISPLAY GOLF-RELATED AND OTHER MEMORABILIA OF THOMAS S. WATSON TO FURTHER THE GENERAL PUBLIC'S KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF HIS LIFE AND CAREER.

  • PROVIDED FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE WATSON YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION.

    Expenses $362,000 · Grants $362,000

  • PROVIDED FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE WATSON LINKS MENTORS FOUNDATION FOLLOWING DISSOLUTION OF THE WATSON YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION.

    Expenses $177,500 · Grants $177,500

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Michael R Thiessen

    VICE-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

  • Janet Barner

    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

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gary D Gilson

    PRESIDENT/SECRETARY

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $257,514
    Expenses
    $610,049
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $539,500
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $700,059
    Expenses
    $401,507
    Contributions
    $545,700
    Grants paid
    $304,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,685
    Expenses
    $234,503
    Contributions
    $15,000
    Grants paid
    $176,300
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $164,944
    Expenses
    $187,659
    Contributions
    $90,000
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $726,860
    Expenses
    $32,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,196,963

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,927
    Expenses
    $137,956
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,362,977

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,366,338
    Expenses
    $61,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,121,602

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $517
    Expenses
    $17,014
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,816,305

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $66,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,815,570

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $56,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,816,918

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $28,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,858,256

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

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 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.