Michigan · Nonprofit
TALL TURF MINISTRIES
TALL TURF MINISTRIES (Michigan) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,153,645 to it, the largest being CDV5 FOUNDATION ($325,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $255k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $365k
What Tall Turf Ministries does
Mission
To equip youth and families for lives of reconciliation in god's world
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Summer youth camp - capacity for the program is 128 young people each session. During the camp experience, participants spend time with their peers and staff while eating, sleeping, praying and learning new skills. As these young people build relationships through shared summer adventure camp- five day session where teens build relationships with fellow campers and staff. Senior camp features such adventure activities as hiking, camping, swimming, canoeing and high ropes course experience. Summer family camp held over a weekend, sessions are organized around curriculum, but also offer lots of time for families to hang out and interact. Summer leader in training (lit) program - motivating teens to make positive choices and live lives of service. This program requires participants to serve others, mentor young campers and peers, increase life and entrepreneurial skills and prepare for college and various careers. Year round leader in training (lit) program - up to 10 lit's have been hired during the traditional school year. Firehouse kids - runs throughout the school year and provides a safe place for youth ages 8 to 13 to join in weekly activities, bible studies, mentoring…
$438,534 spent$31,650 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $438,534.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $1.0M to $715k (−31%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2022 20% · 2023 13% · 2024 1% · 2025 1% · 2026 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of TALL TURF MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Rachael Beechem Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $45k → $174k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 TALL TURF 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
TALL TURF MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 TALL TURF MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 41% · 2019 55% · 2020 55% · 2021 40% · 2022 26% · 2023 29% — 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
45% of TALL TURF MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
100% of TALL TURF MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $454k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
TALL TURF MINISTRIES's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 442 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like TALL TURF MINISTRIES
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 TALL TURF MINISTRIES: 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 TALL TURF MINISTRIES?
- TALL TURF MINISTRIES (Michigan) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,153,645 to it, the largest being CDV5 FOUNDATION ($325,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TALL TURF MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,153,645 in grants to TALL TURF MINISTRIES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TALL TURF MINISTRIES?
- CDV5 FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TALL TURF MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 17 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