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KEN TURNER MINISTRIES

KEN TURNER MINISTRIES (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,444 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($48,350). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$285k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$59k
Net assets
$95k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Ken Turner Ministries does

Mission

Ken Turner Ministries is an outreach ministry to high-risk and fatherless youth and families. We minister to youth and families through outreach events, Bible studies, mentoring, and teaching. We provide programs for youth in juvenile centers and in the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. High Impact Teen Outreach ministry to youth in juvenile centers in East, Middle, and West Tennessee as well as Indianapolis, IN, Central, IL and York, PA. Bible studies, provision of Bible study resources, special ministry projects for incarcerated youth at holidays, and recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers from churches to serve youth locally.

    $221,200 spent$284,960 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $221,200.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($227k) Expenses 100 ($237k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2021 Revenue 116 ($263k) Expenses 102 ($242k) Net assets 133 ($87k)2022 Revenue 91 ($206k) Expenses 103 ($245k) Net assets 73 ($48k)2023 Revenue 89 ($203k) Expenses 94 ($223k) Net assets 43 ($28k)2024 Revenue 108 ($247k) Expenses 99 ($234k) Net assets 63 ($41k)2025 Revenue 125 ($285k) Expenses 98 ($232k) Net assets 144 ($95k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (125)Expenses (98)Net assets (144)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $41k to $95k (+130%).

$66k
$87k
$48k
$28k
$41k
$95k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of KEN TURNER MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’20
$22k
’21
−$39k
’22
−$20k
’23
$13k
’24
$53k
’25
4.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202020212022202320242025
Listed444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $6k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 KEN TURNER MINISTRIES’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

KEN TURNER MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund KEN TURNER MINISTRIES.

81%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 92% · 2019 89% · 2020 80% · 2021 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

95% of KEN TURNER MINISTRIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states.

TN
SC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KEN TURNER MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds KEN TURNER MINISTRIES?
KEN TURNER MINISTRIES (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,444 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($48,350). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does KEN TURNER MINISTRIES have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $59,444 in grants to KEN TURNER MINISTRIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KEN TURNER MINISTRIES?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $48,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KEN TURNER MINISTRIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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