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James Stephen Turner Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$960kHealth$799kReligion$430kRecreation & Sports$260kHuman Services$260kCrime & Legal$150kYouth Development$95kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$1.9M
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $642k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$700,000
GOVERNOR FRANK G CLEMENT RAILROAD HOTEL MUSEUM$250,000
VU - VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT$250,000
LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY$167,000
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS$100,000
NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION$75,000
RENEWAL HOUSE INC$50,000
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS - NASHVILLE AREA CHAPTER$50,000
TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$50,000
TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$50,000
WORD TO FLESH MINISTRIES INC DBA MOSS ROSE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
NASHVILLE ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION$30,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE$25,000
TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIA'S MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%HOPE STATION INC: $10k → 9%ARCHIE'S PROMISE: $10k → 9%ARCHIE'S PROMISE: $5k → 9%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $50k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $50k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $50k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $50k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 19 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
28

Total granted

$4.1M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+31%

Still filing today

74%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $533k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NP
    NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +231%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +76%
  • MO
    MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -16%
  • BU
    Belmont Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +53%
  • TE
    THE ENSWORTH SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +90%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
Nashville Technology Council

Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.

Community Improvement
3
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
4
Girls Write Nashville

Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…

Arts & Culture
5
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
6
Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc

Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.

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7
Nashville Police & Public Safety Alliance

To create a safer nashville through initiatives that engage our community, businesses, and nonprofits to prevent crime, introduce innovation and best practices, and help build the best police department in the nation.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Nashville Fellows Program Inc

Provide support for under-served youth

Religion
9
Park Center Inc

Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…

Employment
10
Oasis Center Inc

Oasis center targets undeserved youth, families, schools, and neighborhoods with a mission to help youth grow, thrive and create positive change in their lives and in our community.

Community Improvement
11
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

—
12
Nashville Bar Association

Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Nashville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Why We Can T Wait. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%17%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr12%15%35–55yr11%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%22%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr12%8%35–55yr11%28%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
13%
621/4,635

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
34/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $1,030,800 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO…Belmont University — $500,000 · EducationBelmont UniversityTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $500,000 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL+4 more — $94,000 · EducationVU - VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT — $500,000 · OtherVU - VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - ATHLET…GOVERNOR FRANK G CLEMENT RAILROAD HOTEL MUSEUM — $260,000 · OtherGOVERNOR FRANK G CLEMENT RAILROAD H…AMERICAN RED CROSS - NASHVILLE AREA CHAPTER — $250,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - NASHVILLE AREA…LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $167,000 · OtherLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $121,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKADVENTURE SCIENCE CENTER — $100,000 · OtherHANDS ON NASHVILLE INC — $100,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NASHVILLE — $100,000 · OtherARTS AND BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER NASHVILLE INC — $100,000 · Other+22 more — $518,456 · Other+22 moreTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL MU…MUSIC CITY INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CITY INCTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE PERFO…NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLI…NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $50,000 · Arts & CultureVanderbilt University Medical Center — $500,000 · HealthVanderbilt U…FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC — $106,500 · HealthFRIENDSHIP H…CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthCUMBERLAND H…RENEWAL HOUSE INC — $50,000 · HealthRENEWAL HOUS…SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER — $40,000 · Health+2 more — $2,667 · HealthMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $400,000 · ReligionNASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION — $30,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $250,000 · Recreation & SportsBACKFIELD IN MOTION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS — $200,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesARCHIES PROMISE — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE STATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesMIAS MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human Services
Education$2,124,800Other$2,216,456Arts & Culture$960,000Health$799,167Religion$430,000Recreation & Sports$260,000Human Services$260,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $1,030,800 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC — $500,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBelmont University — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $250,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMUSIC CITY INC — $200,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS — $200,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $167,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC — $106,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTS AND BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER NASHVILLE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHANDS ON NASHVILLE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWHY WE CAN T WAIT — $60,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $54,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER NASHVILLE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARCHIES PROMISE — $15,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE FORGE NASHVILLE — $15,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE EQUITY ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HOPE STATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMIAS MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC — $1,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSADDLE UP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Community Foundat…Dorothy Cate and Thom…The Steven & Laurie E…The Frist FoundationDettwiller FoundationThe Healing Trust For…Vanderbilt UniversityUnited Way of Middle …Joe C Davis FoundationNashville Predators F…
Memorial Foundation IncTN60.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Vanderbilt University · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization James Stephen Turner Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to James Stephen Turner Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to James Stephen 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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