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TURNING POINT ACTION INC

TURNING POINT ACTION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,913,001 to it, the largest being BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE ($1,613,001). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$38M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
$5.6M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Turning Point Action Inc does

Mission

To promote social welfare through raising awareness about free markets and capitalism, initiating civic action amongst the younger generation and educating youth in order to be a resource for free market thinkers (continued on schedule o)to further advance their values to educate and empower the younger generation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Turning point action (tpa) promotes social welfare by raising awareness about free markets and capitalism, initiating civic action amongst the younger generation and educating youth in order to be a resource for free market thinkers to further advance their values to educate and empower the younger generation. In the fiscal year ended 6/30/2025, tpa trained more than 15,000 grassroots leaders, organized nearly 900 community events, mobilized approximately 26,000 volunteers for community outreach, and supported its industry-leading scorecard. As a result, tpa had face-to-face interactions with close to 800,000 individuals and reached millions more online.

    $36,235,670 spentof which $2,655,292 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $36,235,670.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 3700 ($270k) Expenses 906 ($151k) Net assets 1500 ($105k)2020 Revenue 34982 ($2.6M) Expenses 15325 ($2.6M) Net assets 3768 ($264k)2021 Revenue 154511 ($11M) Expenses 55712 ($9.3M) Net assets 31770 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 35741 ($2.6M) Expenses 25890 ($4.3M) Net assets 7264 ($510k)2023 Revenue 146815 ($11M) Expenses 48066 ($8.0M) Net assets 45476 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 372784 ($27M) Expenses 127878 ($21M) Net assets 128606 ($9.0M)2025 Revenue 513724 ($38M) Expenses 244860 ($41M) Net assets 79635 ($5.6M)
'17'18'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (513724)Expenses (244860)Net assets (79635)

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 $3.8M to $12M (+213%).

$7k
$128k
$562k
$2.3M
$1.0M
$3.8M
$12M
$8.7M
'17'18'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$119k
’18
−$9k
’20
$2.0M
’21
−$1.7M
’22
$2.7M
’23
$5.8M
’24
−$3.4M
’25
2.3
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.

Chief executive

Charlie Kirk

President/CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2018202020212022202320242025
Listed3455558
Joined··+1+0+0+0+3
No longer listed··00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $75k → $575k.

Funder
'19
'23
'24*
'25*
total
USATransformunclassified
$1.2M
The Concord Fundunclassified
$1.1M
45committee Incunclassified
$25k
funders
2
1
3
2

From the IRS filings of TURNING POINT ACTION 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

TURNING POINT ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 TURNING POINT ACTION INC.

41%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 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

TURNING POINT ACTION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 3 states in all.

VA
DC
TX

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

’19
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like TURNING POINT ACTION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 8%Fundraising 4%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Turning Point USA Inc · exempt
  • Turning Point Endowment Inc · exempt
  • America's Turning Point Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds TURNING POINT ACTION INC?
TURNING POINT ACTION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,913,001 to it, the largest being BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE ($1,613,001). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TURNING POINT ACTION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,913,001 in grants to TURNING POINT ACTION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TURNING POINT ACTION INC?
BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE is the largest funder on record, with $1,613,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TURNING POINT ACTION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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