Are there SEC, nonprofit filings or IRS Form 990 records listing Turning Point USA donors and amounts in 2019-2024?
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Executive summary
Turning Point USA and its affiliated entities file annual Form 990 tax returns that are publicly available through IRS data portals and aggregators like ProPublica for fiscal years covering 2019–2023 (and a 2023 PDF published by the organization) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. The reporting assembled for this query does not, however, contain an explicit, sourced statement that those publicly posted Form 990 documents include unredacted lists of individual donors and amounts for 2019–2024; available materials confirm the existence and accessibility of Form 990s but do not confirm public disclosure of donor names and contribution amounts in those filings within the provided sources [6] [5] [7].
1. Public availability of Turning Point USA’s Form 990 filings: what’s on record
Multiple repositories include Turning Point USA’s Form 990 documents: ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer hosts reconstructed Form 990s and the IRS’s digitized releases for the organization (EIN 80‑0835023), with specific filings for fiscal years ending in 2019 and 2020 displayed and a full filing reconstruction available for later years [1] [2] [3] [5]. The organization also made a 2023 Form 990 PDF publicly accessible on its own site, indicating recent filings are being published or linked in multiple places [4]. These records typically contain financial summaries, senior staff names and compensation data, and the schedules the IRS requires nonprofits to submit [6] [5].
2. What the Form 990 typically contains — and what the sources here confirm
The IRS Form 990 framework and the ProPublica reconstructions show that these returns include revenue and expense details, executive compensation, and a set of schedules that report grants, certain payments and other activities [6] [5]. ProPublica’s Schedule I page for Turning Point USA demonstrates that IRS schedules for grants and certain program payments are present and can be reconstructed from IRS raw data releases [7]. The sources therefore establish that the organizational and financial skeleton of Turning Point USA’s filings is public and searchable for the 2019–2023 period cited above [1] [2] [3].
3. Donor names and amounts: what the reporting does — and does not — show
The materials provided for this query do not include an explicit excerpt or statement showing raw donor-name-and-amount listings for Turning Point USA in the 2019–2024 window. While the Form 990s themselves are available in the repositories cited, the assembled source snippets do not demonstrate whether the donor-detail schedules (for example, Schedule B or other contributor disclosures where applicable) were published with donor names and contribution amounts in the public versions indexed by ProPublica or on the group’s site [6] [5] [4] [7]. Therefore, based on the present reporting, it can only be affirmed that the Form 990 documents exist and are accessible through IRS/ProPublica channels; the reporting here does not confirm that those public versions list donors and gift amounts unredacted.
4. Affiliated entities and potential alternative disclosure paths
Turning Point has multiple related entities — for example, Turning Point Action and Turning Point Endowment — whose tax filings are likewise cataloged in Nonprofit Explorer, and those affiliated filings can contain different schedules and disclosures depending on tax status and activity [8] [9]. The existence of separate entities means donor information might be distributed across several EINs and filings; the sources supplied document those separate records’ availability but do not supply a consolidated donor ledger for 2019–2024 [8] [9].
5. Limits of the assembled reporting and next steps for verification
The research compiled here reliably documents that Turning Point USA’s Form 990 returns for the years queried are available through IRS and ProPublica feeds and that the organization posted a 2023 Form 990 PDF online [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. The present sources do not, however, provide a quoted public Schedule B or other filer-provided donor-by-dollar listing within those specific filings for 2019–2024, nor do they address whether any donor schedules were redacted, withheld, or made available through non‑public IRS channels; therefore a definitive answer about whether public Form 990 versions list donor names and amounts in that period cannot be drawn from the provided materials alone [6] [7]. To resolve that remaining question, direct inspection of the full Form 990 PDFs or XML filings for each year in the IRS/ProPublica archives — and cross-checking any Schedule B or similar attachments — would be required [5] [7].