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TurningPoint 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.3MHuman Services$953kHealth$864kEducation$750kEnvironment$750kHousing & Shelter$501kYouth Development$343kPhilanthropy$244kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $375k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Family Centers of Greenwich$500,000
Trinity Park Conservancy$500,000
Dallas Museum of Art$250,000
Resource Center$125,000
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas$50,000
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas$50,000
Transform 1012 N Main Street$50,000
Smithsonian National Postal Museum$50,000
The Stewpot-First Presbyterian Chur$50,000
Collaborative Alliance Parents Teachers$30,000
Every Five Minutes$25,000
Millbrook School$25,000
Woven Health Clinic$25,000
Torres Foundation$25,000
The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Compass Family Services: $30k → 10%Stonington Community Center Inc: $4k → 9%Ocean Community YMCA: $2k → 7%Hermes BTP Foundation: $3k → 23%Compass Family Services: $25k → 10%Compass Family Services: $10k → 10%Upturn Arts: $5k → 23%Upturn Arts: $3k → 23%Woven Health Clinic: $25k → 14%Woven Health Clinic: $25k → 14%Woven Health Clinic: $25k → 14%Woven Health Clinic: $25k → 14%Woven Health Clinic: $25k → 14%Woven Health Clinic: $25k → 14%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

NY
MA
NV
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 38 repeat orgs$636k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
24

Total granted

$6.9M
$601k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+5%

Still filing today

66%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity 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

  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +445%
  • TP
    Trinity Park Conservancy
    2× · 2024–2025 · $750k · revenue +209%
  • T1
    TRANSFORM 1012 N MAIN STREET
    4× · 2022–2025 · $330k · revenue +402%

Funded once

  • RC
    Resource Center Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $167k
  • MA
    MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • E
    EQUEST
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +5%
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
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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2
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
3
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
Bosque School

To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.

Education
6
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
9
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
10
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
11
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
12
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Audubon Nature Institute Inc. 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

48 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. 48 of the 68 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
28/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Family Centers of Greenwich: $875,000 · OtherFamily Centers of GreenwichRESOURCE CENTER: $458,000 · OtherRESOURCE CENTERThe Stewpot First Presbyterian Chur: $275,000 · OtherThe Stewpot First Presbyterian ChurSmithsonian National Postal Museum: $205,000 · OtherSmithsonian National Postal MuseumResource Center Foundation: $167,000 · OtherATT Performing Arts Center: $166,000 · OtherVolunteers of America: $125,000 · OtherBRIDGE STEPS: $175,000 · Other+28 more: $992,900 · Other+28 moreDallas Museum of Art: $1,100,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $125,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS THEATER CENTERTHE WONDERSEED FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WONDERSEED FOUNDATI…PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $95,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE …+4 more: $120,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTrinity Park Conservancy: $750,000 · Community ImprovementTrinity Park Con…TRANSFORM 1012 N MAIN STREET: $330,000 · Community ImprovementTRANSFORM 1012 N…+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $378,750 · HealthVISITING …PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $225,000 · HealthPLANNED P…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $257,500 · EducationSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $75,000 · EducationKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $75,000 · EducationBONTON ENTERPRISES: $35,000 · EducationEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+6 more: $55,000 · EducationON EAGLES WINGS INC AKA WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC: $150,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $65,000 · Human ServicesUPTURN ARTS: $8,000 · Human Services+3 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesSON OF A SAINT: $207,500 · Youth Development
Other$3,438,900Arts & Culture$1,565,500Community Improvement$1,085,000Health$608,750Education$522,500Human Services$230,500Youth Development$207,500

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 budgetDallas Museum of Art: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTrinity Park Conservancy: $750,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $378,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTRANSFORM 1012 N MAIN STREET: $330,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $257,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $207,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBRIDGE STEPS: $175,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetON EAGLES WINGS INC AKA WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC: $150,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WONDERSEED FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEQUEST: $45,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFLEUR DE QUE: $39,400 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBONTON ENTERPRISES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $30,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVOKIDS: $30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS JOIN THE FIGHT: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWESTHILLS BASEBALL INC: $25,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHS COYOTE FOOTBALL: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LAS VIRGENES SCHOOLS: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTACA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStep Denver: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFUNDS FOR THE BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUPTURN ARTS: $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSTONINGTON EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLANDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTONINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds TRANSFORM 1012 N MAIN STREET ↗
  • Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds SON OF A SAINT ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE STEPS ↗
  • Who funds ON EAGLES WINGS INC AKA WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE WONDERSEED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING ↗
  • Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EQUEST ↗
  • Who funds FLEUR DE QUE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BONTON ENTERPRISES ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds ADVOKIDS ↗

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.

Texas Instruments Fou…The Addy FoundationBen E Keith Foundatio…The Eugene McDermott …Meadows Foundation IncThe Moody FoundationThe Greater New Orlea…MOB Family FoundationFred and Ann Margolin…Kline Family Foundati…David M Crowley Found…Embrey Family Foundat…
Texas Instruments FoundationTX17.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · MOB Family Foundation · Fred and Ann Margolin Foundation · Kline Family Foundation · David M Crowley Foundation · Embrey Family 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 TurningPoint Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from TurningPoint Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to TurningPoint Foundation?

Find your warmest path to TurningPoint 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.

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 68 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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