· Private foundation
Turner 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KY Race Track Chaplaincy | $6,073 |
| FCA | $5,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Samaritans Purse | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Pioneer Bible Translators | $3,000 |
| Stonebridge Church | $2,576 |
| National Christian Foundation | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Billy Graham Evangelical Assn | $2,000 |
| Hopeful Hearts | $2,000 |
| Wayside Christian Mission | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Critically Loved | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +83%
- WCWAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +15%
- GMGO MINISTRIES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESone grant, 2021 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- SFSamaritan's Feet Internationalone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -22%
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.
Religious
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
Missionary work in the nation of India
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
The ministry of One Love is to establish and equip a generation to obey and fulfill Jesus' Great Commandment and the Great Commission. One Love will work to cultivate a generation of leaders who are wholly given and surrendered to the will…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 39 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds GO MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CRITICALLY LOVED INC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds Samaritan's Feet International ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Bridge to Faith ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A CHOICE FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Turner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Turner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Safe Passage Inc: 55% of income from government
How this is measured
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