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The Jesse Turner Foundation at a glance

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The Jesse Turner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$86kHealth$31kHousing & Shelter$30kRecreation & Sports$28kYouth Development$24kReligion$8kInternational$3kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
$27,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$410k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASHLAND HOME$27,000
IMERMAN ANGELS$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $2k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $800 → 10%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$159k · 11 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$159k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+15%

Still filing today

64%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • NA
    NEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +17%
  • ND
    NEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $19k · revenue +1%
  • OF
    ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • FS
    FIRST STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +5%
  • LB
    Long Beach Junior Crew
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
2
Sun Street Centers

To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.

Human Services
3
The Olive Tree Sober Living
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4
The Miracle House Foundation

Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration

Human Services
5
Candela Group

The mission of the Candela Group is to bring stability and an improved quality of life to our clients and their loved ones affected by mental illness by uniting them with public and private mental health services Our lived experience as…

Health
6
Abilities Oc

To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.

Human Services
7
Impact Ministry Socal

Impact Ministry is dedicated to supporting marginalized individuals as they successfully transition into society, with a focus on lifestyle changes, education, and a strong spiritual foundation.

Human Services
8
Angels Recovery House

The purpose of Angels Recovery House is to provide a safe living place for men and women how have nowhere else to go in the escape from dangerous situations, i.e., domestic violence, drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse, poverty. Homeless housing.

Unclassified
9
House of Miracles

The house of miracles provides women with rehab counseling in a drug and alcohol free environment. their stay is generally three months. upon departure, residents have maintained their sobriety. the program is extremely successful.

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10
Our Own Home

Our own home's mission is to provide life enriching opportunities for those with disabilities as well as those recovering from drug and alcohol dependency, by offering housing, life skills, employment services,and educational services with…

Housing & Shelter
11
Downtown Women's Center

Housing, employment, and physical and mental health services for women overcoming homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
12
Healthright 360

To give hope and change lives. we do this by offering a continuum of prevention, intervention, behavioral health and wellness services to adults and families throughout california. these services aim to reduce costs of societal problems by…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Directions for Women Inc; the most unlike its peers is Miss Amazing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMENS STEP HOUSE: $71,242 · OtherWOMENS STEP HOUSEASHLAND HOME: $27,000 · OtherASHLAND HOMEFIRST STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $6,500 · OtherMarketplace Ministries Worldwide: $6,000 · Other1ST STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5,800 · Other+14 more: $16,584 · Other+14 moreNEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER: $19,500 · Recreation & SportsNEWPORT AQUA…Long Beach Junior Crew: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsLong Beach J…NEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC: $19,400 · HealthNEW DIRECTI…IMERMAN ANGELS: $3,000 · HealthIMERMAN ANG…ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $16,500 · Crime & LegalLAURA'S HOUSE: $7,416 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTILLY'S LIFE CENTER: $6,400 · EducationROMANIAN HANDICAPPED MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 · International
Other$133,126Recreation & Sports$25,000Health$22,400Crime & Legal$16,500Human Services$12,416Education$6,400International$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER: $19,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC: $19,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE: $7,416 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTILLY'S LIFE CENTER: $6,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMarketplace Ministries Worldwide: $6,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetLong Beach Junior Crew: $5,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIMERMAN ANGELS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROMANIAN HANDICAPPED MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANYON CLUB INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISS AMAZING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION VIEJO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAliso Viejo Little League Inc: $733 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

Orange County Communi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Jesse Turner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jesse Turner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to The Jesse Turner Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jesse 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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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