Tennessee · Nonprofit
TURNERS HEROES
TURNERS HEROES (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,067 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $120k
What Turners Heroes does
Mission
Pediatric Patient and Family Support. Fund Pediatric Cancer Research.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support pediatric cancer research through a $5,000 grant to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants32% of program spendingProvide support for pediatric patients at children's hospitals through superhero-themed events.
$7,151 spent46% of program spendingWork with communities to fundraise for pediatric cancer research and support pediatric patients. This is done through a virtual fun run and fundraising events at sporting events.
$3,385 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,536.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $81k to $120k (+48%).
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.
100% of TURNERS HEROES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
Chief executive
Cody Markel
Executive Director
Board chair
Martin Penny
President of the Board
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $117 → $230.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 TURNERS HEROES’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
TURNERS HEROES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
72% 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 TURNERS HEROES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
TURNERS HEROES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $942 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
TURNERS HEROES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,648 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,648 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like TURNERS HEROES
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TURNERS HEROES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds TURNERS HEROES?
- TURNERS HEROES (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,067 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TURNERS HEROES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $36,067 in grants to TURNERS HEROES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TURNERS HEROES?
- PGA TOUR INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TURNERS HEROES 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.
Play a game about who funds Turners Heroes →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 4 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