· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $34,500 |
| WAYSIDE WAFS | $10,000 |
| KU ENDOWMENT | $10,000 |
| PAWSPERITY - FKA THE GROOMING PROJECT | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY | $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 |
| BOYSGROW CORP | $500 |
| UNCORNERED | $500 |
| JOHN T JACKSON FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY19–22, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
- RBROSE BROOKS CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +21%
- PFPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITYone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -19%
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.
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…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 50 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.
- 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 ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- 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 Saint Lukes Health System Home Care and Hospice ↗
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: 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
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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