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· Public charity

Turning Point for God

To broadcast the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the available means including television, radio, internet, recorded, and written formats.

$1.9M
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$675k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.5MReligion$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$50kCivil Rights$20k
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $958,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,876,159 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $918,159 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
  • $250k+2 grants · $925k
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Christian Unified Schools of San Diego$675,000
Shadow Mountain Community Church$250,000
Turning Point Ministries Foundation$33,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%United African American Ministerial Action Council: $20k → 11%Museum of the Bible: $25k → 16%National Religious Broadcasters: $100k → 14%Samaritans Purse Texas Flood Relief: $50k → 21%Vision Charitable Trust: $1.5M → 3%Christian Unified Schools of San Diego: $675k → 11%Shadow Mountain Community Church: $300k → 11%Christian Unified Schools of San Diego: $300k → 11%Shadow Mountain Community Church: $250k → 11%Shadow Mountain Community Church: $202k → 11%Shadow Mountain Community Church: $193k → 11%Christian Unified Schools of San Diego: $151k → 11%Christian Unified Schools of San Diego: $100k → 11%Christian Unified Schools of San Diego: $100k → 11%Christian Unified Schools of San Diego: $100k → 11%Shadow Mountain Community Church: $25k → 11%Turning Point Ministries Foundation: $123k → 11%Turning Point Ministries Foundation: $33k → 11%San Diego Christian College: $200k → 11%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $910k on the FY2022 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$739k · 81% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Support Christian broadcast and study materials distribution.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$170k · 19% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Support Christian broadcast and study materials distribution.

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 3 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
0%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
ReligionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CU
    CHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLS OF SAN DIEGO
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +110%
  • SM
    SHADOW MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY CHURCH
    5× · 2017–2022 · $970k
  • TP
    Turning Point Ministries Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $156k · revenue -106% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • VC
    Vision Charitable Trust
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -76% · 27% of their budget
  • SD
    San Diego Christian College
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -81%
  • NR
    National Religious Broadcastersgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +204%
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.

1
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Redeemed Christian Church of God

To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.

Religion
3
Sacra Script Ministries

Sacra Script Ministries is a Christian ministry whose principal activity is teaching and explaining the Bible. This includes presenting various courses and seminars and producing and distributing Bible study materials, including audio,…

Religion
4
Association of Certified Biblical

Training & certification of christian biblical counselors

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5
God's Image
Human Services
6
Southern California School of Theology

Theology Grad School Offering Interfaith and Ecumenical Degree Programs, MDIV, MA, DMIN and PHD.

Education
7
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
8
Servant Foundation

The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…

Religion
9
Clc Ministries International

To make evangelical Christian literature available to all nations so that people may come to faith and maturity in Jesus Christ

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10
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
11
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
12
The Master's University and Seminary

The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Unified Schools of San Diego; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLS OF SAN DIEGO: $1,426,264 · EducationCHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLS OF SAN DIEGOSan Diego Christian College: $200,000 · EducationSan Diego Christian CollegeVision Charitable Trust: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyVision Charitable TrustSHADOW MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY CHURCH: $970,000 · OtherSHADOW MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY…+1 more: $25,000 · OtherTurning Point Ministries Foundation: $156,452 · ReligionNational Religious Broadcasters: $100,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 · ReligionUnited African American Ministerial Action Council: $20,000 · Religion
Education$1,626,264Philanthropy$1,500,000Other$995,000Religion$326,452

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVision Charitable Trust: $1,500,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLS OF SAN DIEGO: $1,426,264 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetSan Diego Christian College: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTurning Point Ministries Foundation: $156,452 over 2y, 43% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited African American Ministerial Action Council: $20,000 over 1y, 21% 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.

The San Diego Foundat…Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Turning Point for God funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Turning Point for God. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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