Has Turning Point USA undergone an IRS audit and what were the findings?

1. What public financial records show — Form 990s, not an IRS audit

Nonprofit databases like ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer make Turning Point USA’s IRS Form 990 filings and other publicly filed tax forms available and flag when federal grant audits (via the Federal Audit Clearinghouse) are present; the items in the search results point users to TPUSA’s Form 990s and full filing records but do not present a separate IRS audit report or summarize audit findings for TPUSA ^{[1] [2]}.

2. Charity watchdogs check for audited financial statements, but that’s different from an IRS audit

Charity Navigator’s assessment process notes that it looks for whether a nonprofit publishes audited financial statements and whether Form 990s report diversions of assets; the Charity Navigator entry referenced concerns TPUSA’s disclosure practices and whether audited statements are available to donors, but that entry is not an IRS audit determination and does not indicate the IRS audited TPUSA ^[3].

3. What an “IRS audit” of a nonprofit would look like in public records

When a nonprofit spends large federal grant sums, Single Audits and other federal audit documents appear in repositories such as the Federal Audit Clearinghouse and are linked from databases like ProPublica; the ProPublica entries in the search results explain that such audits are copied from that clearinghouse, but the materials provided do not show a Single Audit or IRS examination report tied to TPUSA ^{[1] [2]}.

4. Broader IRS audit context — rising enforcement but not specific to TPUSA

Multiple pieces in the search results discuss a general rise in IRS enforcement capacity and audit activity in 2025, changes to audit procedures, and shifting IRS priorities (including targeting high-net-worth taxpayers and business audits), but they do not connect those trends to any documented audit of Turning Point USA in the available reporting ^{[4] [5] [6]}.

5. Why people ask this question — audits, political groups, and scrutiny

Public interest in whether politically active nonprofits like TPUSA have been audited reflects broader debates about IRS enforcement and political bias; the search results include policy and advocacy perspectives about IRS hiring and audit targeting (for example, commentary on who new resources will target), but these sources do not provide evidence that TPUSA itself was audited or penalized ^{[7] [6]}.

6. Limits of the available sources and unanswered specifics

Available sources do not mention any IRS audit findings for Turning Point USA, and they do not include an IRS notice, audit report, or a news story documenting an IRS examination of TPUSA ^{[1] [2]}. If you seek a definitive answer about any IRS audit action or findings, these search results do not contain that documentation; additional targeted searches of IRS public disclosures, the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, TPUSA press releases, or contemporaneous investigative reporting would be required to confirm whether an audit occurred and what it found ^[1].

7. How to verify further — documents to request or databases to check

To verify whether TPUSA underwent an IRS audit and what the outcome was, check the organization’s Form 990s for notes, the Federal Audit Clearinghouse for Single Audits if federal funds were received, IRS newsroom releases for agency actions, and investigative reporting from outlets that track nonprofit compliance; the ProPublica nonprofit pages and full Form 990 downloads are a good starting point but, in the materials you provided, they do not document an IRS audit of TPUSA ^{[1] [2]}.

Summary: The records and reporting in the supplied search results show Turning Point USA’s Form 990 filings and explain where nonprofit audits would appear publicly, but they do not report that TPUSA has been audited by the IRS nor describe any audit findings ^{[1] [2] [3]}.