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How much revenue did Turning Point USA report in IRS Form 990 for 2018 2019 2020 2021 and 2022?
Executive summary
The documents and analyses you supplied do not include the specific IRS Form 990 revenue figures for Turning Point USA for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. The available records reference Form 990 filings, links, and aggregate fundraising totals, but they do not state the annual revenue line items for the requested years; to answer precisely you must retrieve the Form 990 PDFs or IRS extracts for each year [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].
1. What you asked for and what the supplied sources actually claim — a reality check that matters
You asked for the annual revenue reported on IRS Form 990 by Turning Point USA for 2018–2022. The materials provided by your analyses repeatedly point to repositories and partial filings (ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer, Instrumentl/GuideStar links and other write-ups) but they uniformly note an absence of the specific year-by-year revenue figures in the excerpts you supplied. The ProPublica pages referenced indicate the existence of Form 990 filings and give access paths to full filings, yet the excerpts included in your dataset do not extract the total revenue lines for the years in question, so the core numeric claim remains unsupported by the supplied text [1] [2] [3].
2. Where the dataset points and why the gap exists — public filing practice and the limits of the excerpts
The provided sources show that ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer, GuideStar, and Instrumentl maintain copies or links to Form 990 PDFs and summary pages for Turning Point USA, and they note that e-filing rules changed around 2020 — which influences availability and format of records. However, the supplied analyses are primarily metadata and commentary about filing availability rather than the extracted financial figures themselves. That explains the gap: the repositories are cited, but the excerpts you gave do not include the line-item “total revenue” values for 2018–2022 that would answer your question directly [6] [4] [5].
3. What other facts the supplied sources do include and what they imply about scale
Some of the provided materials include broader financial context that is relevant but does not substitute for year-by-year revenue lines. One analysis notes an $85 million figure for 2023 revenue reported in public sources and another piece aggregates fundraising under the organization’s founder to roughly $389 million through mid‑2023; these numbers show significant scale but are not equivalent to the Form 990 annual revenue lines you requested. Using those higher-level figures without the actual 990 line items risks conflating fundraising totals, multi-entity receipts, or multi-year aggregates with the specific annual revenue reported on each Form 990 [7] [8].
4. Conflicting interpretations and possible agendas you should watch for in secondary reporting
Secondary articles and aggregator pages sometimes headline large cumulative fundraising totals or single-year highs to convey impact; these pieces can reflect editorial emphasis, donor-focused narratives, or investigatory frames. The supplied write-ups that cite totals or newly uncovered grants illustrate how reporting can shape impression without providing Form 990 line-by-line confirmation. For an authoritative answer you must rely on primary filings; the supplied dataset clearly flags the repositories and PDF links but the excerpts do not extract the official IRS totals, so any secondary figure in the files should be cross-checked against the Form 990 “Total revenue” line on the Schedule or page 1 of the return [8] [5].
5. The straightforward next steps to obtain the exact numbers you requested
To obtain the precise Form 990 total revenue for Turning Point USA in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, download the full 990 PDFs from ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer or GuideStar/Instrumentl and read the “Total revenue” or “Program revenue and contributions” lines on page one or the statements of revenue; alternatively retrieve the corresponding IRS Form 990 dataset extracts from the IRS site. The supplied analyses identify the correct repositories and indicate which filings exist for those years, but they do not provide the numeric line items, so fetching the original PDF filings referenced in the sources is the essential next step [1] [4] [5].
6. Bottom line: what can be stated now and what remains unresolved
Based on the documents and summaries you supplied, it is a demonstrable fact that the sources reference Form 990 filings and broader fundraising totals, but they do not contain the requested year-by-year Form 990 revenue figures for 2018–2022. The precise numbers remain unresolved in your dataset; obtaining the PDFs or IRS extracts cited in the sources will produce the authoritative per-year totals you requested [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].