Virginia · Nonprofit
NOLEF TURNS
NOLEF TURNS (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,155 to it, the largest being WEISSBERG FOUNDATION ($291,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $780k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $616k
- Net assets
- $818k
What Nolef Turns does
Mission
to reduce recidivism by supporting and advocating alongside those with court and justice involvement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct service support is provided to individuals being released from long-term incarceration as well as pre-trial support for those being released from local and regional jails. The aim is to ensure a safe return to court and reduce reliance on prolonged periods of physical incarceration.
$460,800 spentof which $200,000 as grants$28,000 earned by the program58% of program spendingJob and housing search assistance workforce development basic needs support restoration of civil rights voter registration civic education technology training clothing closet and food pantry.
$150,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants19% of program spendingCriminal and juvenile legal systems advocacy voting rights prison reform housing reform and other initiatives to address the collateral consequences of prior legal convictions. Advocacy training program designed for individuals directly affected by mass incarceration crime and trauma.
$100,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants$28,000 earned by the program13% of program spendingHarm Reduction Support provides assistance with basic needs support placement in recovery and sober living residences payment of fines fees and costs related to treatment teaching about opioid crisis and distribution of Naloxone eviction and rent support transportation costs gas cards etc
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants1% of program spendingRecord sealing and expungement support
$57,750 spentof which $50,000 as grants7% of program spendingCreating a Safer Environment C.A.S.E. Dual Support Mentorship Development Program for formerly incarcerated individuals. Coordinating juvenile justice support by building a behavioral wellness peer support network.
$26,250 spentof which $25,000 as grants3% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $799,800.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $29k to $420k (+1355%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 40% · 2023 10% · 2024 10% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of NOLEF TURNS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Sheba Williams
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $94k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 NOLEF TURNS’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
NOLEF TURNS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 NOLEF TURNS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 62% · 2022 81% · 2023 75% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of NOLEF TURNS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
78% of NOLEF TURNS's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
NOLEF TURNS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NOLEF TURNS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 NOLEF TURNS: 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 NOLEF TURNS?
- NOLEF TURNS (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,155 to it, the largest being WEISSBERG FOUNDATION ($291,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NOLEF TURNS have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $616,155 in grants to NOLEF TURNS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOLEF TURNS?
- WEISSBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $291,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOLEF TURNS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 15 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