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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.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 40
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$462k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Turner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationReligionHealthCivil RightsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$48k28%
FY20246$12k33%
FY202328$88k7%
FY202239$74k18%
FY202135$72k14%
FY202040$59k68%
FY201924$108k46%
FY201824$70k63%
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$221kArts & Culture$111kPhilanthropy$76kCommunity Improvement$36kHuman Services$30kRecreation & Sports$22kCrime & Legal$22kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Bible Society$71,25090%
United Way of Central Alabama Inc$60,00060%
The Navigators$42,1008n/a
Wycliffe Associates Inc$36,0005n/a
The Foundry Ministries Inc$20,50070%
Crimson Tide Foundation$18,1841n/a
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$17,5005n/a
Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc$10,50040%
Cathedral Church of the Advent$10,0002n/a
Project to Advance Stenographic Reporting Inc$10,000110%
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All grantees of Turner Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Bible Society$71,25090%
United Way of Central Alabama Inc$60,00060%
The Navigators$42,1008n/a
Wycliffe Associates Inc$36,0005n/a
The Foundry Ministries Inc$20,50070%
Crimson Tide Foundation$18,1841n/a
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$17,5005n/a
Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc$10,50040%
Cathedral Church of the Advent$10,0002n/a
Project to Advance Stenographic Reporting Inc$10,000110%
Institute for Justice$8,50050%
Grace to You$6,5506n/a
Raleigh's Place$5,25071%
Apologetics Resources Center Inc$5,20022%
Bible League$4,1003n/a
Judicial Watch Inc$4,00030%
Image Clear Ultrasound Inc$3,50050%
Truth for Life$3,40030%
The Red Barn$3,35070%
Food for the Poor Inc$3,00020%
The Altamont School$3,00010%
Compassion International Incorporated$2,74030%
Jews for Jesus$2,5003n/a
Magic City Harvest Inc$2,50020%
Indian Springs School$2,00010%
Gideons International$2,0002n/a
Prager University Foundation$1,75030%
Live Action$1,75040%
Biglife International Inc$1,60040%
Alabama Policy Institute Inc$1,50010%
Set Free Alliance (F/K/A Water of Life)$1,50010%
Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals Inc$1,50010%
Feeding America$1,30010%
Children's Harbor Inc$1,10020%
Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission$1,00010%
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama$1,00010%
Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation$1,00010%
Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc$1,00010%
Birmingham Bar Foundation$75010%
Community Bible Study$50010%
Cure International Inc$50010%
Voice of the Martyrs Inc$5002n/a
Big Oak Ranch Inc$50010%
Westwood Baptist Church$5001n/a
Pantazis Foundation Inc$3002n/a
Parkinson Association of Alabama Inc$25010%
Freedom Rain Inc$20010%
Kid One Transport System Inc$20010%
Community Food Pantry$1001n/a
Georgia Life Alliance Inc$10010%
Christian Service Mission Inc$10010%
Christ Fellowship Church$1001n/a
Auburn University Foundation$10010%
Citizens United Foundation$10010%
Ronald McDonald House Alabama Inc$10010%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$6010%
Share Our Strength$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($223k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Turner Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Bible Society: $71,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Central Alabama Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundry Ministries Inc: $20,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHeart of Alabama Food Bank Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetProject to Advance Stenographic Reporting Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetInstitute for Justice: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRaleigh's Place: $5,250 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetApologetics Resources Center Inc: $5,200 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetImage Clear Ultrasound Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTruth for Life: $3,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Red Barn: $3,350 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Altamont School: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $2,740 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMagic City Harvest Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIndian Springs School: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLive Action: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBiglife International Inc: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlabama Policy Institute Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSet Free Alliance (F/K/A Water of Life): $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance of Confessing Evangelicals Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Harbor Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Jimmie Hale Mission: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank of Central Alabama: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirmingham Bar Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCure International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Oak Ranch Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson Association of Alabama Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom Rain Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKid One Transport System Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Life Alliance Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Service Mission Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAuburn University Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Alabama Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 43.

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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.

The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL36.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ernest G & Cecil B Williams Foundation · Servant 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.

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How do I get to Turner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Turner Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Turner Foundation

How much does Turner Foundation give?
Turner Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $49,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Turner Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Arts & Culture (18%), Philanthropy (12%).
Who are Turner Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Bible Society ($71k), United Way of Central Alabama Inc ($60k), The Navigators ($42k).
Does Turner Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Turner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Turner Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Hill Crest Foundation Inc, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
Where is Turner Foundation based?
Turner Foundation is based in AL.

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 100 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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