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The Turk Family Foundation at a glance

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The Turk Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$305k
Granted FY2017
35
Grants FY2017
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

74% of The Turk Family Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 36 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Turk Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $305k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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36
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$1.2MHuman Services$198kEducation$101kInternational$100kReligion$80kFood & Nutrition$64kYouth Development$48kHealth$30kOther$0
02FY2017 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k30 grants · $180k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIB$35,000
SERVING SENIORS$30,000
SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL$25,000
CONGREGATION BETH EL$20,000
LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMM$15,000
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES$7,500
ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY$7,500
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION SD$7,500
HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO$7,500
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER SD$7,500
ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO$7,500
MEALS ON WHEELS SD$7,500
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$7,500
SEACREST VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES$7,500
MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT$7,500
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 (FY17–18, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $8k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $8k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $8k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $8k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $8k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $5k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $8k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $8k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $30k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $30k → 11%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$508k · 31 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
32

Total granted

$508k
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+47%

Still filing today

71%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue +24%
  • SS
    SERVING SENIORS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue +182%
  • FS
    FEEDING SAN DIEGO
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Salk Institute for Biological Studiesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +38%
  • CB
    CONGREGATION BETH EL
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • UD
    UC DAVIS
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
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
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
3
Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.

Human Services
4
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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5
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
6
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
7
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank

The jacobs & cushman san diego food bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in san diego county. its mission is to provide nutritious food to people in need, advocate for the hungry, and educate the public about hunger-related…

Food & Nutrition
8
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

—
9
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…

Social Science
10
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…

—
11
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

38 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. 38 of the 65 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
36/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,178,294 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+1 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMM: $30,000 · OtherLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH C…CONGREGATION BETH EL: $20,000 · OtherUC DAVIS: $17,500 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION SD: $15,000 · OtherInterfaith Community Services Inc: $15,000 · OtherSEACREST VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES: $15,000 · OtherJACOBS & CUSHMAN SD FOOD BANK: $15,000 · OtherHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO: $15,000 · OtherBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER SD: $15,000 · OtherDAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH: $15,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $15,000 · OtherThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 · OtherMOISHE HOUSE: $15,000 · Other+31 more: $188,960 · Other+31 moreSERVING SENIORS: $60,000 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $15,000 · Human ServicesCasa De Amparo: $15,000 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $12,500 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $12,500 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $70,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 · InternationalMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $15,000 · EducationBROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $15,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionSAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION: $5,000 · Food & NutritionThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $25,000 · Science & Tech
Philanthropy$1,185,794Other$406,460Human Services$137,500International$90,000Education$36,500Food & Nutrition$27,500Science & Tech$25,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,178,294 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERVING SENIORS: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS INCLUDED TOGETHER: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTARPAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHEMOTHERAPY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL ROOTS FARM: $3,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $3,500 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 San Diego Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…The Cushman FoundationLeichtag FoundationBoys and Girls Aid So…Walter J & Betty C Za…Price Philanthropies …Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Nordson Corporati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…
The San Diego FoundationCA30.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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 Turk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Turk Family 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 65 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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