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Turner Foundation Inc

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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
129
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$499k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$6.6MAnimals$2.3MEducation$1.0MYouth Development$548kCommunity Improvement$397kArts & Culture$389kRecreation & Sports$296kPhilanthropy$220kOther$0
02FY2025 · 129 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k54 grants · $189k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $882k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $499k
$10,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC$498,930
CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC$80,000
THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$60,000
BIRDS GEORGIA$55,800
BIRDS GEORGIA$54,130
AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY$50,000
WOZU INC$50,000
GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST$50,000
CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION$50,000
AMERICAN FORESTS$50,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY$50,000
FLINT RIVERKEEPER INC$50,000
FOREST STEWARDS GUILD$50,000
LONGLEAF ALLIANCE$50,000
OCMULGEE NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 29%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARAMBEE HOUSE: $25k → 16%DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $15k → 40%DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $14k → 40%DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $12k → 40%DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $8k → 40%BOYS TOWN NORTH FLORIDA: $700 → 19%FATHER FLANAGANS BOYS HOME: $250 → 19%G-CAPP: $5k → 13%G-CAPP: $3k → 13%SHARE OUR SUZY LOWCOUNTRY: $2k → 12%MEALS ON WHEELS OF ATLANTA: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 113 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

113 repeat relationships: 68 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
140

Total granted

$8.5M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+12%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $621k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $641k · revenue +14%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $443k · revenue +160%
  • WL
    WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $207k · revenue +236%

Funded once

  • TE
    TURNER ENDANGERED SPECIES FUND LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $535k
  • RL
    RESOURCES LEGACY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +114%
  • TF
    TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND-NORTHERN ROCKIES
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
5
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
6
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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7
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
8
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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9
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
10
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
11
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
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Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Child Art Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

215 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. 215 of the 298 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
52
Early backer (in before they grew)
213/215
Grantees still filing
128/215
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Birds Georgia Corporation: $474,730 · EnvironmentBirds Georgia CorporationWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE: $206,592 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $205,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $200,000 · EnvironmentGEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS: $197,000 · EnvironmentRED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $193,406 · Environment+60 more: $3,518,990 · Environment+60 moreTURNER ENDANGERED SPECIES FUND LLC: $535,000 · OtherTURNER ENDANGERED SPECIES FUND LLCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $236,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PSHIP: $216,500 · OtherROSEBUD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $160,000 · OtherOCMULGEE NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE: $153,000 · OtherPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $145,000 · Other+91 more: $2,764,783 · Other+91 moreINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $641,430 · AnimalsINTERNATION…TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $145,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIM…THE ORIANNE SOCIETY: $120,000 · AnimalsTHE ORIANNE…American Bird Conservancy: $90,000 · AnimalsAmerican Bi…Delta Waterfowl Foundation: $80,000 · AnimalsDelta Water…ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY: $57,500 · AnimalsGEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $45,000 · Animals+2 more: $65,000 · AnimalsTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $442,500 · EducationTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $177,500 · EducationThe George Washington University: $47,800 · EducationCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $40,000 · Education+7 more: $119,500 · EducationKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $167,300 · Arts & CulturePORT ARTHUR HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 · Arts & CultureARISE MEDIA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $110,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL: $65,000 · Community ImprovementNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementNEBRASKA GRAZING LANDS COALITION: $15,000 · Community ImprovementIDEAS IN ACTION INC: $10,500 · Community ImprovementSicangu Community Development Corporation: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $190,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsField Institute of Taos: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$4,995,718Other$4,210,283Animals$1,243,930Education$827,300Arts & Culture$412,300Community Improvement$240,500Recreation & Sports$230,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $641,430 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetBirds Georgia Corporation: $474,730 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $442,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $236,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE: $206,592 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $205,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS: $197,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetRED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $193,406 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $190,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $177,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $167,300 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFLINT RIVERKEEPER INC: $160,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOne Hundred Miles Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $145,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $145,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $145,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $130,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $129,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards: $125,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHE ORIANNE SOCIETY: $120,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $115,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $110,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC: $102,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPORT ARTHUR HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetARISE MEDIA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetQUIVIRA COALITION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE: $95,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetWest Atlanta Watershed Alliance: $90,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCaptain Planet Foundation Inc: $89,500 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $80,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD: $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOQUE RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $72,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC: $72,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL: $65,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPROSPERITY WORKS: $65,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCLIMATE AND ENERGY PROJECT INC: $65,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOKEFENOKEE SWAMP PARK INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetURBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK: $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

PatagoniaorgNational Recreation F…United States Energy …The Arthur M Blank Fa…The Energy FoundationJane Smith Turner Fou…Resources Legacy FundWilburforce FoundationNational Fish and Wil…The Community Foundat…The Kendeda FundR Howard Dobbs Jr Fou…
PatagoniaorgCA49.2× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · National Recreation Foundation Incorporated · United States Energy Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Jane Smith Turner Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Wilburforce Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Kendeda Fund · R Howard Dobbs Jr Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Turner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Turner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Bonneville Environmental Foundation: 100% of income from government
  • Farm Aid Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Tall Timbers Research Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Rethink Energy Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Turner Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Turner Foundation Inc 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.

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 298 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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