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The Turner Family Foundation at a glance

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The Turner Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$336k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$490kPhilanthropy$424kHuman Services$404kHealth$264kFood & Nutrition$220kYouth Development$120kCrime & Legal$103kAnimals$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$4,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ozarks Food Harvest$60,000
Cox Health Foundation$36,000
iPour Life$20,000
Community Foundation of the Ozarks$15,000
Lost and Found$15,000
Foundation for Spfld Public Schools$13,000
OTC Foundation$12,500
Springfield Public Schools$10,250
Rescue One$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Ann Short Turner Community Center$10,000
Laura Ingalls Wilder Home & Museum$10,000
Care to Learn$10,000
CASA of Southwest Missouri$7,500
Mansfield Public Schools$6,000
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 (FY17–25, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%Good Samaritan Boys Ranch: $3k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $3k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $3k → 18%Lost and Found: $15k → 15%Care to Learn: $10k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $10k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $10k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $10k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%WRIGHT COUNTY CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 23%LOST AND FOUND: $5k → 15%WRIGHT COUNTY CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 23%LOST AND FOUND: $5k → 15%WRIGHT COUNTY CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 23%LOST AND FOUND: $5k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%LOST AND FOUND: $5k → 15%LOST AND FOUND: $5k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%LOST AND FOUND: $5k → 15%LOST AND FOUND: $5k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%LOST AND FOUND: $5k → 15%HELP GIVE HOPE: $3k → 15%ELEVATE LIVES: $5k → 15%ELEVATE LIVES: $5k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC: $3k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC: $3k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $3k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $3k → 15%Developmental Center of the Ozarks: $3k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 15%DREW LEWIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 59 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
11

Total granted

$2.0M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+207%

Still filing today

56%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • OF
    OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +69%
  • CF
    COXHEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $132k · revenue +123%
  • OT
    OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +317%

Funded once

  • RC
    REPUBLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • SC
    SPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • RC
    RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
2
Arc of the Ozarks

To be a leader in service delivery for persons with disabilities by providing an array of supports and services to integrate them into their communities and to enhance the quality of their lives.

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3
Children's Home Society of Missouri

The agency's overarching philosophy is based in the neurosequential model of therapeutics (nmt), developed by dr. bruce perry. nmt is a trauma-informed, developmentally sensitive approach to understanding the impact of a child's history on…

Human Services
4
Clark Community Mental Health Center

Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.

Health
5
Family Advocacy and Community Training Inc

Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…

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6
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
7
Donate Life Foundation

To improve the quality of life for people affected by organ and tissue donation and transplantation. to transform our community by eliminating the waiting list for organ and tissue transplants.

Health
8
Missouri Empowerment Project

We create a nurturing space that helps every person thrive and build a brighter future.

Human Services
9
Lutheran Family and Children's Services Foundation

To promote positive change for missouri's children and families by supporting the operations of lutheran family and children's services of missouri in the communities they serve.

Philanthropy
10
Missouri Center for Patient Safety

Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.

Health
11
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
12
Family Health Center of Boone County

To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center; the most unlike its peers is Wright County Childrens Home. 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

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 77 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $95,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIANN SHORT TURNER COMMUNITY CENTER: $90,000 · OtherANN SHORT TURNER COMMUNITY CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLaura Ingalls Wilder Home & Museum: $66,000 · OtherLaura Ingalls Wilder Home & MuseumMansfield Public Schools: $49,000 · OtherREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL: $45,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $45,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $45,000 · OtherDrury University Foundation: $45,000 · OtherCAMP BARNABAS: $35,000 · OtherIPOURLIFE INC: $45,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $40,000 · Other+36 more: $319,750 · Other+36 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $404,040 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE O…COXHEALTH FOUNDATION: $132,000 · PhilanthropyCOXHEALTH FOUNDATIONOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $97,000 · PhilanthropyOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY CO…Care to Learn: $65,000 · Human ServicesCare to Lea…LOST & FOUND: $55,000 · Human ServicesLOST & FOUN…Good Samaritan Boys Ranch: $33,500 · Human ServicesGood Samari…DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $22,500 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENT…FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT…WRIGHT COUNTY CHILDRENS HOME: $15,000 · Human ServicesWRIGHT COUN…Elevate Lives: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $9,000 · Human Services+4 more: $20,500 · Human Services+4 moreOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $220,000 · Food & NutritionOZARKS FOO…Foundation for Springfield Public Schools: $85,710 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $47,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $26,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $13,500 · Health+4 more: $9,000 · HealthRescue One: $77,500 · AnimalsDIRKS FUND: $7,500 · AnimalsTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $45,000 · Crime & LegalMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $12,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,009,750Philanthropy$633,040Human Services$246,500Food & Nutrition$220,000Health$181,710Animals$85,000Crime & Legal$77,500

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $404,040 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $220,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION: $132,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $97,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetFoundation for Springfield Public Schools: $85,710 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetRescue One: $77,500 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCare to Learn: $65,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLOST & FOUND: $55,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIPOURLIFE INC: $45,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $33,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $22,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSpringfield Workshop Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSPRINGFIELD CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA AND LEARNING: $14,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetElevate Lives: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRECOVERY FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetDIRKS FUND: $7,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLAKE COUNTRY SOCCER INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILLER MCNEIL WOODRUFF FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOULA FOUNDATION OF MID-AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds COXHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Springfield Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds Rescue One ↗
  • Who funds Care to Learn ↗
  • Who funds LOST & FOUND ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IPOURLIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Boys Ranch ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds Springfield Workshop Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WRIGHT COUNTY CHILDRENS HOME ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA AND LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗

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 Charlie & Mary Be…Community Foundation …Ozarks Health Advocac…Commerce Bancshares F…Robert M - Bobby - Al…Cook Family FoundationMusgrave FoundationStanley & Elaine Ball…Larry P O'Reilly and …The Hulston Family Fo…Bee Payne-Stewart Fou…Roy W Slusher Charita…
The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family FoundationMO47.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Cook Family Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · The Hulston Family Foundation · Bee Payne-Stewart Foundation · Roy W Slusher Charitable 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 Turner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Turner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report 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, 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 77 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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