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TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US)

TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,646,864 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,070,550). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$951k
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$5.6M
Net assets
$178k
14/31 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Turquoise Mountain Foundation (Us) does

Mission

To promote awareness of cultural heritage, revive historic areas and provide support for charitable and educational programs, including the sustainable development of indigenous craft industries.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Grant funding to turquoise mountain trust of scotland and turquoise mountain for heritage preservation training to promote awareness of cultural heritage, revive historic areas and provide support for charitable and educational programs, including the sustainable development of indigenous craft industries, in afghanistan, myanmar, saudi arabia and the levant.

    $732,274 spentof which $730,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $732,274.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($257k) Expenses 100 ($341k) Net assets 100 ($147k)2018 Revenue 305 ($785k) Expenses 35 ($121k) Net assets 552 ($811k)2019 Revenue 133 ($341k) Expenses 191 ($653k) Net assets 340 ($499k)2020 Revenue 274 ($704k) Expenses 305 ($1.0M) Net assets 111 ($163k)2021 Revenue 882 ($2.3M) Expenses 639 ($2.2M) Net assets 170 ($250k)2022 Revenue 204 ($524k) Expenses 198 ($676k) Net assets 66 ($97k)2023 Revenue 355 ($913k) Expenses 287 ($978k) Net assets 22 ($32k)2024 Revenue 370 ($951k) Expenses 236 ($805k) Net assets 122 ($178k)
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Revenue (370)Expenses (236)Net assets (122)Peer revenue range

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 $159k to $811k (+409%).

$159k
$811k
$490k
$160k
$250k
$97k
$55k
$201k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,947 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$84k
’17
$664k
’18
−$312k
’19
−$337k
’20
$87k
’21
−$153k
’22
−$65k
’23
$146k
’24
3.0
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.

Board chair

Georgina Sanger

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed777557910
Joined·+0+0+0+0+2+2+2
No longer listed·0020001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $200k → $877k.

9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 66%; 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 TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US).

37%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 66% · 2019 70% · 2020 44% · 2021 44% · 2022 78% · 2023 40% — 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 TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
MD
DE
NC
OK
TX
FL

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

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’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,527 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,527 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 4%Fundraising 5%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

38%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US)?
TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,646,864 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,070,550). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $5,646,864 in grants to TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US), 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US)?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,070,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing