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Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$7.9MReligion$6.7MCommunity Improvement$2.8MHuman Services$2.7MEducation$2.4MArts & Culture$2.3MFood & Nutrition$250kAnimals$140kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $574k
  • $250k+13 grants · $9.4M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$4,000,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - VUMC$1,000,000
WILLIAMSON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
BRENTWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (BUMC)$500,000
FRIENDS OF THE SHRINE OF ST NICHOLAS$500,000
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION$500,000
FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC$350,000
FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC$350,000
REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC$250,000
ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$250,000
ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$250,000
ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$250,000
FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC$250,000
ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$210,000
ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $250k → 4%REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $15k → 4%REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $9k → 4%LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE: $100k → 14%LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE: $6k → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $2k → 14%WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $7k → 14%WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $7k → 14%WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $5k → 14%WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $5k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $3k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $2k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $2k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $840k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $830k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $830k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $3k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $2k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $2k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $2k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $2k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $2k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 74%.

Cal Turner Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 23 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
9

Total granted

$23M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+82%

Still filing today

78%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +35%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +12%
  • FR
    FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • VU
    VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • VV
    VU - VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY TURNER FAMILY CENTER FOR SOCIAL VENTURES PMB 407
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • NF
    NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +41%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
2
My Fathers House Nashville

The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
3
Project Return Inc

People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…

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4
Thistle Farms Inc

Helping women survivors recover & heal from prostitution, trafficking, & addiction. we do this by providing a safe and supportive place to live, a meaningful job, and a lifelong sisterhood of support.

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5
The Family Center Inc

Raising resilience tennessee's (formerly known as the family center, inc.) mission is breaking multigenerational cycles of childhood trauma and our vision is a resilient community where all children thrive.

Human Services
6
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
The New Beginnings Center

To improve tennessee health statistics with a targeted focus on women's health needs by providing access to wellness programs, strength training, physical and nutritional education, and personal coaching. the new beginnings center gives…

Health
8
Centerstone of Tennessee Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health
9
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
10
The Presbyterian Hospital

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
11
Easter Seals Tennessee Inc

The mission of easterseals tennessee is to make profound positive differences in the lives of people with disabilities as they learn, work, and play in their communities.

Health
12
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc

Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Nashville Dream Center; the most unlike its peers is Judge Dinkins Educational Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $5,200,000 · OtherST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $2,815,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBRENTWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (BUMC): $500,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE SHRINE OF ST NICHOLAS: $500,000 · Other+15 more: $1,378,520 · Other+15 moreWILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 · HealthWILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION …Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $3,000,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical…CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $510,000 · HealthCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION…+1 more: $70,000 · HealthYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $2,500,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Ch…THE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $274,300 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGE CEN…The Red Road Inc: $247,000 · Human ServicesThe Red Road I…+6 more: $169,600 · Human ServicesFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC: $2,434,960 · EducationFRANKLIN RO…+3 more: $89,840 · EducationFrom The Heart Productions: $2,258,718 · Arts & CultureFrom The H…NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $250,000 · Food & NutritionTHE WELL COFFEEHOUSE: $150,000 · Community Improvement
Other$10,393,520Health$6,580,000Human Services$3,190,900Education$2,524,800Arts & Culture$2,258,718Food & Nutrition$250,000Community Improvement$150,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $2,500,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC: $2,434,960 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $2,258,718 over 5y, 11% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $510,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $274,300 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetThe Red Road Inc: $247,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetNEW WAY NOW INC: $159,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE WELL COFFEEHOUSE: $150,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSECOND CHANCE K9 SERVICE DOGS INC: $140,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetLEGACY MISSION VILLAGE: $105,760 over 2y, 11% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDGE DINKINS EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $27,360 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVETERAN TICKETS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $24,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSHOWER THE PEOPLE: $12,480 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetFANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $12,480 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $12,480 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST STEPS INC: $12,480 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC: $9,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOTHER TO MOTHER INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…United Way of Middle …Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…Nashville Predators F…The Frist FoundationServant FoundationSpeer FoundationJoe C Davis FoundationCarolyn Smith Foundat…Andrea Waitt Carlton …Baird Foundation Inc
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN35.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Servant Foundation · Speer Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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