Indiana · Nonprofit
500 TURKEYS INC
500 TURKEYS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,166 to it, the largest being NEEDY BUT NOT GREEDY NANCY L AMATO AND ROBERT A AMATO FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $43k
What 500 Turkeys Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to raise enough food and funds each year to feed local families for Thanksgiving and positively touch as many lives as possible by showing Christ in action.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Thanksgiving Meal Distribution is our main program. We provided a 12-14 pound frozen turkey and a box of side dish ingredients pies eggs and rolls for 1,530 local families in 2024. While our guests receive their gifts they are treated to snacks entertainment counsel and other community resources. We also supported 10 local shelters veterans and senior organizations in their efforts to support local families during the holidays. Our team and volunteers logged 1,683 hours along with our guests and community. involving 352 individuals who served.
$33,769 spent82% of program spendingTurkeypalooza is our annual community outreach. We offer a family-friendly concert experience to draw local attention to our ministries and other local resources. This year we raised awareness for mental health organizations. This is an open event in a public park so we do not know the number of individuals reached but we estimate that over 500 attended the main concert and repeat attendance and community sponsorship were strong.
$6,050 spent15% of program spendingOur Clothes N Prayers ministry collects donated clothing and household goods to distribute to local residents in need throughout the year. On average we collect 100+ bags of donations per week. During over 5,000 volunteer hours our team collected readied and re-gifted clothing and household goods for more than 7,500 local recipients last year.
$1,210 spent3% of program spendingWe attend and support other community outreach events throughout the year to raise awareness of our resources.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,029.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $18k to $44k (+152%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
97% of 500 TURKEYS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jennifer Bolton
Board President and Founder
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 500 TURKEYS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
500 TURKEYS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
500 TURKEYS INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
500 TURKEYS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like 500 TURKEYS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 500 TURKEYS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 500 TURKEYS INC?
- 500 TURKEYS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,166 to it, the largest being NEEDY BUT NOT GREEDY NANCY L AMATO AND ROBERT A AMATO FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 500 TURKEYS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $27,166 in grants to 500 TURKEYS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 500 TURKEYS INC?
- NEEDY BUT NOT GREEDY NANCY L AMATO AND ROBERT A AMATO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 500 TURKEYS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing