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Turner Family Charitable Foundation

Pensacola, FL · EIN 47-4394844. Reported 166 grants totalling $14.1M to 63 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$15,000median grant
$14.1Mgranted, 2021-2024
63organizations funded
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,304,934assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Turner Family Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $300 and the largest $2,971,941. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
28 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
31 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
40 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
38 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 and Up
17 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
First Baptist Church of PensacolaPensacola, FL$10.0M442024
Waterfront Mission IncPensacola, FL$460,000442024
Fellowship of Christian AthletesPensacola, FL$450,000442024
Answering the CallingRoanoke, VA$390,000332023
Loaves and FishesPensacola, FL$335,000442024
Children of Christ Home Sponsored By Fbc PensacolaPensacola, FL$271,000442024
Light Evangelism MinistryPensacola, FL$138,606332023
Answering the CallRoanoke, VA$130,000112024
Project Hope Recovery CenterCrestview, FL$125,000442024
Re-Entry Alliance of PensacolaPensacola, FL$125,000442024
Saving Grace Women's Home IncCrestview, FL$125,000442024
Teen ChallengePensacola, FL$120,000442024
21 WilberforceFalls Church, VA$110,000442024
My Fathers ArrowsJay, FL$110,000442024
Health and Hope ClinicPensacola, FL$105,000442024
Safe HarborPensacola, FL$105,000442024
Center for Clergy CarePensacola, FL$95,000442024
First Pentecostal ChurchPensacola, FL$85,000442024
First United Methodist ChurchCrestview, FL$85,000442024
Rally FoundationPensacola, FL$77,938442024
But God MinistriesMadison, MS$55,000442024
Antioch West Baptist ChurchGeorgiana, AL$51,000442024
American Red CrossPensacola, FL$50,000222022
Lillian United Methodist ChurchLillian, AL$50,000442024
The Gideons InternationalNashville, TN$40,000442024
First City ChurchPensacola, FL$38,500442024
Martha's VineyardPensacola, FL$26,000112024
First Baptist Church of DadevilleDadeville, AL$25,000112023
Kentucky Baptist ConventionLousiville, KY$25,000112021
The Village HandsPensacola, FL$25,000442024
Pace Center for GirlsPensacola, FL$22,500442024
Child Hope InternationalSanta Barbara, CA$20,000222024
Grace Point ChurchGreenville, AL$20,000222022
ReadykidsPensacola, FL$20,000442024
First Baptist Church of Gulf BreezeGulf Breeze, FL$17,500442024
Christian MinistriesPensacola, FL$16,577112021
Pillars for PromisePensacola Beach, FL$16,500442024
Baptist on MissionCary, NC$15,000112024
Mke Meeks Charity IncShalimar, FL$12,600222022
Higher GroundRome, GA$11,000442024
Mike Meeks Charity IncShalimar, FL$11,000222024
Children's Home Society of FloridaOrlando, FL$10,000112022
Olive Baptist ChurchPensacola, FL$10,000112023
Escambia Cty Public Schools FoundationPensacola, FL$9,000332024
Big HouseOpelika, AL$8,500112024
Community Life ChurchGulf Breeze, FL$7,500332024
Council on Aging of West FloridaPensacola, FL$5,000112021
Feeding the Gulf CoastMilton, FL$5,000112022
Keeping Abreast FoundationPensacola, FL$5,000112024
Love a ChildFort Myers, FL$5,000112024
St Vincent De PaulPensacola, FL$5,000112022
Impact 100Pensacola, FL$4,000442024
Society of DebutantePensacola, FL$4,000442024
Family Promise of Escambia CountyPensacola, FL$3,250112024
Bright Bridge MinistriesPensacola, FL$2,500112021
Foodraising Friends IncMilton, FL$2,500112022
The Als AssociationTampa, FL$2,500112023
Coastline Calvary ChapelGulf Breeze, FL$1,000112024
Leadership InstituteArlington, VA$1,000112024
Live Well WaterGulf Breeze, FL$1,000112023
First United Methodist Church of FwbFort Walton Beach, FL$500112021
Restoration Life ChurchEminence, KY$500112024
Wfhs BaseballPensacola, FL$300112023

39 of 63 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 83%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 45 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
7 grants
International Affairs
6 grants
Human Services
6 grants
Food & Nutrition
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants
Education
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202140$2,551,951$15,000
202241$4,036,942$10,000
202341$4,111,097$16,000
202444$3,414,930$13,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 93% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$13.2M
Virginia
$631K
Alabama
$154K
Mississippi
$55K
Tennessee
$40K
Kentucky
$26K
California
$20K
North Carolina
$15K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Turner Family Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 6501 Pensacola Blvd, Pensacola, FL, 32505. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 47-4394844 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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