· 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY TOCQUEVILLE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| JESUS FILM PROJECT | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT | $5,000 |
| WYCLIFF ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $2,000 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $2,000 |
| MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE | $1,650 |
| SET FREE ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| FOCAL POINT MINISTRIES | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,100 |
| TRUTH FOR LIFE | $1,100 |
| GRACE TO YOU | $1,100 |
| FAMILY RADIO | $1,100 |
| ICU MOBILE | $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 (FY17–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +57% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 5 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +74%- TFTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +31%
- HOHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC4× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CTCRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $18k
- PTPROJECT TO ADVANCE STENOGRAPHIC REPORTING INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -45%
- BBBIRMINGHAM BAR VOLUNTEER LAWYERSone grant, 2017 · $9k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Aac's purpose is to build up and defend great commission anglican churches in north america through developing faithful leaders, equipping local churches and engaging the church and culture with gospel clarity.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
How this is measured
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 100 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 AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT TO ADVANCE STENOGRAPHIC REPORTING INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds APOLOGETICS RESOURCES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGE CLEAR ULTRASOUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE RED BARN ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
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 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
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.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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