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Jane Smith Turner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$856k
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Environment$287kAnimals$255kRecreation & Sports$120kArts & Culture$113kInternational$110kReligion$103kEducation$88kHealth$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 45 grants below total $654,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $855,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $201,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $467k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$10,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Georgia for Georgia, Inc.$65,000
International Union for Conservation of Nature$50,000
St. Jude's Children's Hospital$30,000
Aperture Foundation$27,000
Panthera$27,000
International Crane Foundation$27,000
The Orianne Society$27,000
National Audubon Society$27,000
Star Gospel Mission$25,000
Charleston Community Sailing, Inc.$25,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs$20,000
American Indian College Fund$20,000
Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation$15,000
Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches, Inc.$15,000
Montana Outfitters and Guides Association Educational Institute$15,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BROOKS SCHOOL: $5k → 10%TROUT UNLIMITED: $20k → 10%PROJECT DRAWDOWN: $3k → 10%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $25k → 17%FIRST SCOTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 12%INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR: $25k → 14%CHURCH OF ASCENSION: $50k → 12%ISLAND DOLPHIN CARE: $3k → 13%QUAIL FOREVER: $25k → 16%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $25k → 19%See Attached: $963k → 21%INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SOUND WATERS: $5k → 9%RESTORE HOPE FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%NO KIND HUNGRY: $3k → 8%INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR GEORGIAN: $35k → 13%THE ORIANNE SOCIETY: $25k → 13%GEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $15k → 10%ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOLF PROJECT: $3k → 12%AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY: $1k → 6%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION: $52k → 15%COLLEGIATE OFFSHORE SAILING CIRCUIT: $10k → 10%PANTHERA: $25k → 17%GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $8k → 12%LAND TRUST ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%RCS PINELLAS FOOD BANK: $10k → 12%NATIONAL WILDLIFE TURKEY FEDERATION: $25k → 19%See Attached: $924k → 21%GEORGIA FOR GEORGIA INC: $10k → 8%CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER: $10k → 13%CAMPS SUNSHINE: $10k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY -: $5k → 15%GEOSENTINEL FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 17%THE DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY: $10k → 12%AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $20k → 14%See Attached: $892k → 21%GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $6k → 15%NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY: $5k → 15%SAYRE SCHOOL: $5k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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CO
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DC
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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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$421k · 12 repeat orgs$915k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
33

Total granted

$421k
$504k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+52%

Still filing today

100%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $411k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • GF
    GEORGIA FOR GEORGIA INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +40%
  • CC
    CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +136%
  • PC
    PANTHERA CORPORATION
    2× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • KE
    KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION
    one grant, 2020 · $52k
  • CO
    CHURCH OF ASCENSION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR GEORGIAN
    one grant, 2020 · $35k

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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
5
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
6
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
7
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
8
Archbold Expeditions Inc

Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.

Unclassified
9
Audubon Canyon Ranch Inc

Connecting nature, people, and science for a more resilient world.

Environment
10
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Independent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%14%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr18%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%25%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr14%42%35–55yr18%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,809

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

46 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
24/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION — $51,500 · OtherKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISIONCHURCH OF ASCENSION — $50,000 · OtherCHURCH OF ASCENSIONINTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR GEORGIAN — $35,000 · OtherSt. Jude's Children's Hospital — $30,000 · OtherNational Audubon Society — $27,000 · OtherStar Gospel Mission — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITED — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherTHE FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL WILDLIFE TURKEY FEDERATION — $25,000 · Other+37 more — $363,000 · Other+37 morePANTHERA CORPORATION — $52,000 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORP…THE ORIANNE SOCIETY — $52,000 · AnimalsTHE ORIANNE S…INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $52,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL…+3 more — $8,500 · AnimalsINT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US — $50,000 · EnvironmentINT'L UNIO…LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND…CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOC…GEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND — $10,000 · EnvironmentGEORGIA CO…BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentSOUNDWATERS INC — $5,000 · Environment+1 more — $3,000 · EnvironmentCHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC — $70,000 · Recreation & SportsKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCollegiate Offshore Sailing Circuit Inc — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $35,000 · EducationSAYRE SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationThe George Washington University — $10,000 · EducationPROJECT DRAWDOWN — $7,500 · EducationBROOKS SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationGEORGIA FOR GEORGIA INC — $75,000 · InternationalAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART — $17,500 · Arts & CultureCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Arts & CultureTHOMASVILLE CULTURAL CENTER INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$731,500Animals$164,500Environment$123,000Recreation & Sports$95,000Education$85,000International$75,000Arts & Culture$61,500

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 budgetGEORGIA FOR GEORGIA INC — $75,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC — $70,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION — $52,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ORIANNE SOCIETY — $52,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $52,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAYRE SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetABACO FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEOSENTINEL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECDYSIS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCaptain Planet Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe George Washington University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBROOKS SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMASVILLE CULTURAL CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUNDWATERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Resilience Project Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAREI INC — $3,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKISS THE GROUND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $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.

Turner Foundation IncGA30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Turner Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Jane Smith Turner Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Soundwaters Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 Jane Smith Turner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jane Smith Turner Foundation 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 78 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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