Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN
TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,384,893 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($970,685). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Turning Points for Children does
Mission
To nurture families with children who are struggling against economic and environmental odds, giving them the critical resources, life skills and supportive partnerships to create stronger families and raise children with hope for a brighter future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community umbrella agency ("cua") - under which turning points is a supervisory conduit for dhs funding to social service providers within the 15th (cua 3), 16th and 19th (cua 10), 35th and 39th (cua 5), and 12th, 18th and 77th (cua 9) police districts of philadelphia. Tpfc assumed control of cuas 5 and 10 on january 1, 2018. As a cua, turning points is responsible for providing its own services and the services of subcontractors to children and youth within those police districts. Turning points is responsible for the safety, well-being and permanency of over 6,000 children and their families across the four cuas served. Turning points is regularly lauded by the city of philadelphia's department of human services for being a top performer in key benchmarks and for strong management.
$12,180,183 spent63% of program spendingResource parent/foster care: resource parent/foster care program provides safe and healthy homes for over 700 children in philadelphia. Sometimes, it becomes necessary to remove a child from their family while issues related to child abuse and neglect are addressed. When this happens, a turning points case manager works closely with the biological and foster family, relative caregivers, dhs, the courts and other agencies to help the family address its challenges and reunify the child with the biological family as soon as possible. When that is not possible, turning points works to find another permanent family.
$5,349,079 spent28% of program spendingYv lifeset: yv lifeset program provides transition services to young adults ages 17-22, who have aged out of the foster care, juvenile justice and mental health systems, or who would otherwise find themselves without the skills and resources to live successfully at this critical junction in their young lives. The program model provides a proven level of intense case management in that the yvlifeset specialists are available to the young adults 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They make a minimum of one face-to-face contact per week with the youth at the youth's home, job or wherever is most convenient. The number of sessions is increased as needed to match the individual needs of each young adult. The yvlifeset program integrates both clinical and case management components to help ensure young people are engaged in the program and establish permanency, education, employment, housing and basic independent living skills.
$535,179 spent3% of program spendingOther program
$1,230,817 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,295,258.
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 2023 to 2024, from $46M to $35M (−25%).
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 91% · 2018 88% · 2019 93% · 2020 94% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 95% · 2024 88% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
David Fair
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $482k → $752k.
9 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Turning Points For Children Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN raised.
From the IRS filings of TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. 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 POINTS FOR CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 20% · 2019 20% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — 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
57% of TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
82% of TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $587k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 36 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $746k on record.
- Department of Justice$746k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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 2 states
Part of a family of 23 related entities
- Public Health Management Corporation · exempt
- Public Health Management Services Corpor · exempt
- The Therapeutic Center at Fox Chase Aka · exempt
- Health Promotion Council of Southeastern · exempt
- National Nurse-Led Centers Consortium · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN?
- TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,384,893 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($970,685). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $6,384,893 in grants to TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $970,685 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 70 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