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Roderick L and Terry C Turner Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of Roderick L and Terry C Turner Family Charitable Trust’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Starfish Animal Rescue$24,219
BASIS Scottsdale Primary West School$11,000
Yale University$10,000
Boys & Girls Club Metro Phoenix$8,000
AZ Humane Society$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Our Lady of Angels$3,060
Swift Youth Foundation$2,560
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$2,500
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 (FY17–19, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOMEWARD BOUND: $14k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $10k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $1k → 11%ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $3k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $1k → 11%Child Help: $2k → 11%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$270k · 12 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
25

Total granted

$270k
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BS
    BASIS SCOTTSDALE PRIMARY WEST BOOSTERS
    3× · 2018–2020 · $51k · revenue +69%
  • SA
    STARFISH ANIMAL RESCUE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $39k · revenue +158%
  • HB
    HOMEWARD BOUND INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • BC
    BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +43%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOUR ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • GH
    GREAT HEARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

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
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
2
The Dons of Arizona
Education
3
Alliance for Arizona Animal Protection

Prevention of animal cruelty and intervention on behalf of animals being abused.

Animals
4
Arizona Humane Society

We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.

Animals
5
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

6
The Arizona Pet Project

The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…

Animals
7
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
8
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

9
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc

To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.

10
International School of Arizona

Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…

Education
11
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
12
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Science Center and the most unlike its peers is Starfish Animal Rescue. 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 backsteadyAnimal Rescue and WelfareArizona Community Foundatio…Family Housing & Support Se…Faith-Based Community Devel…Performing Arts Organizatio…Charter Schools
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 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%0%<5yr17%14%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr14%29%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr10%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%0%<5yr17%45%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr10%13%35–55yr10%4%55yr+

The field is 30% 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 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/29
the rest of the field
17%
2,922/17,024

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

25 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. 25 of the 41 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAFE HARBOUR ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION — $72,000 · OtherSAFE HARBOUR ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATIONYALE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYSAFE HARBOUR ANIMAL RESCUE — $24,600 · OtherSAFE HARBOUR ANIMAL RESCUEGREAT HEARTS — $20,000 · OtherGREAT HEARTSBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC — $18,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INCOur Lady of Angels — $11,825 · OtherOur Lady of AngelsSWIFT YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $10,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherAZ Humane Society — $7,775 · Other+15 more — $16,973 · Other+15 moreBASIS SCOTTSDALE PRIMARY WEST BOOSTERS — $51,000 · EducationBASIS SCOTTSDALE PRIMAR…BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $25,000 · EducationBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS I…ARCHWAY CLASSICAL ACADEMY CICERO — $5,000 · EducationARCHWAY CLASSICAL ACADE…+2 more — $2,000 · EducationSTARFISH ANIMAL RESCUE — $39,219 · AnimalsSTARFISH ANIM…FEATHERS FOUNDATION INC — $4,750 · AnimalsFEATHERS FOUN…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $2,500 · Animals+2 more — $800 · AnimalsHOMEWARD BOUND INC — $24,915 · Human ServicesARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INC — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesSWIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION — $10,060 · Recreation & SportsSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY — $5,450 · Community ImprovementCatholic Community Foundation for the Diocese of Phoenix — $4,405 · Religion
Other$216,173Education$83,000Animals$47,269Human Services$30,415Recreation & Sports$10,060Community Improvement$5,450Religion$4,405

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOMEWARD BOUND INC — $24,915 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSWIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION — $10,060 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY — $5,450 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetARCHWAY CLASSICAL ACADEMY CICERO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEATHERS FOUNDATION INC — $4,750 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHELP INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX SEMINARY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR RANCHERS RIGHTS co Lisa Khan — $500 over 1y, 11% of budgetPHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation — $300 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.

American Express FoundationNY21.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Yelp Foundation · The Rob Walton Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Thunderbirds Charities · McKesson Foundation Inc · Ibis Foundation of Arizona co Casey LeSueur Getz CPAs PLLC · Livingston Foundation · Moreno Family 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 Roderick L and Terry C Turner Family Charitable Trust 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 41 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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