Which affiliated organizations and PACs list the same leaders as Turning Point USA and how do their boards overlap?

1. How TPUSA structures its family of organizations — the headline view

Turning Point USA is a 501(c)^[5] with related tax‑exempt entities listed on its return: the Turning Point Endowment, Turning Point Action (a 501(c)^[1] social‑welfare group that engaged in partisan activity in 2020), and America’s Turning Point, Inc., which focuses on student education — a set of related nonprofits that, per Forbes, appear on TPUSA’s 2023 filings ^[2].

2. Which named political vehicles exist and where they appear in public data

OpenSecrets shows a political arm called Turning Point PAC (a Carey committee / hybrid PAC / super PAC designation appears in OpenSecrets’ PAC profile) and records related PAC activity under “Turning Point” names; it also hosts a separate historical super PAC profile for Turning Point America ^{[6] [7]}. OpenSecrets lists Turning Point‑branded PAC profiles, donors and spending tabs tied to the movement but does not itself print a consolidated list of shared board members ^{[6] [7]}.

3. Known leadership at the top of TPUSA

Following Charlie Kirk’s death in September 2025, TPUSA’s board unanimously elected Erika Kirk as CEO and board chair; TPUSA’s own team and multiple news outlets report that transition ^{[3] [8] [9] [10]}. Charlie Kirk had been the founder, public face and chief fundraiser prior to his death ^{[11] [3]}.

4. What the records explicitly say about overlapping boards — and what they don’t

Forbes’ reporting that TPUSA listed three related tax‑exempt organizations on its 2023 tax return (Turning Point Endowment, Turning Point Action, America’s Turning Point) confirms institutional linkage on filings but does not publish a matched, line‑by‑line board roster for each entity to prove board overlap ^[2]. OpenSecrets lists PAC activity tied to Turning Point names but does not provide a transparent mapping of the same individual board members across all affiliated nonprofits and PACs ^{[6] [12]}. Therefore, available sources do not mention a complete crosswalk of board members across every affiliate.

5. Public reporting that hints at personnel concentration

News coverage and TPUSA’s own governance/team pages emphasize close institutional continuity — for example, TPUSA’s board statement and internal pages framing Erika Kirk’s elevation as carried out by the existing board — implying a tight leadership circle that can govern multiple associated entities ^{[3] [8] [10]}. Forbes also documents that TPUSA’s filings centrally identify affiliate entities, which is consistent with nonprofits that often share directors, executives or major donors, but Forbes does not publish the full board lists for each affiliate ^[2].

6. What researchers and journalists would need to prove exact overlap

To show concrete board overlap you need each entity’s IRS Form 990 or public state filings and PAC filings listing officers and directors for the same years — documents not reproduced in the current results. OpenSecrets and Forbes provide names of entities and fundraising totals but not a definitive, contemporaneous board roster cross‑reference; thus, available sources do not mention a verified, itemized list showing exact director duplication across TPUSA, Turning Point Action, its endowment, and related PACs ^{[2] [6] [12]}.

7. Conflicting perspectives and hidden incentives to note

TPUSA and its outreach materials present the network as a campus‑focused movement with educational and civic aims (TPUSA site), while investigative coverage highlights partisan activity by related groups — for example, Turning Point Action’s reported $1 million backing of Trump’s 2020 effort — underscoring how affiliated entities can pursue different legal activities (education, social welfare, independent political spending) under common branding ^{[2] [13]}. That corporate architecture serves both message amplification and, critics argue, potential flexibility around tax and election‑law boundaries; Forbes and OpenSecrets document the relationships in structural terms but stop short of legal conclusions ^{[2] [12]}.

8. Bottom line and next steps for a definitive answer

Current reporting and TPUSA’s own governance pages establish the names of the principal affiliate entities and show Erika Kirk’s elevation at TPUSA, but they stop short of producing a transparent, document‑backed crosswalk of board members across all Turning Point entities and PACs ^{[2] [3] [6]}. To verify exact overlap, request or review each affiliate’s most recent Form 990 (or state nonprofit filings) and PAC FEC reports and then match officer/director names year‑by‑year; those primary filings are not included in the sources provided here (available sources do not mention full 990 lists or matched board rosters).