· Private foundation
Turner Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
65% of Turner Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Turner Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $130k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST | $26,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $25,000 |
| EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ZOO | $5,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $2,900 |
| HOP ON A CURE | $500 |
| UNITY OF NASHVILLE | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 36% of Turner Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BUBRADLEY UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $750k · revenue +5%
- CMCITYTEAM MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2024 · $529k · revenue +50%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA6× · 2017–2023 · $205k · revenue +26%
Funded once
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +228%- PMPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +59%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +59%
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.
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.
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Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima · Chester County Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Turner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Turner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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