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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $34,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY | $10,000 |
| PAWSPERITY - FKA THE GROOMING PROJECT | $10,000 |
| WAYSIDE WAFS | $10,000 |
| KU ENDOWMENT | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $6,000 |
| ST TERESA'S ACADEMY | $5,250 |
| VILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $2,500 |
| ABILITY KC | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM AT PRARIE FIRE | $1,000 |
| BABY2BABY | $1,000 |
| JOHN T JACKSON FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BOYSGROW CORP | $500 |
| UNCORNERED | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WWWAYSIDE WAIFS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $104k · revenue +20%
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +2%
- BBABY2BABY5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- PIPAWSPERITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +123%
- PFPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITYone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -19%
- RBROSE BROOKS CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Club of Greater Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is Worldwide Friends Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 50 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAWSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds BOYS GROW CORP ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Sosland Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sherman Family Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Horizons · The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation · The Atterbury 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 Turner Family Foundation 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.
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.
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