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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill (William) Montgomery; Charlie Kirk was the movement’s public founder, executive director, chief fundraiser and chief public face ...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk with mentor and businessman Bill (William) Montgomery; Kirk was 18 at the time and soon left college to build the organization . Accounts ...
Turning Point USA was co‑founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and businessman Bill (William) Montgomery; Kirk became the public face and executive director of the group until his death in 2025 . The organi...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is a conservative nonprofit founded in 2012 that focuses on organizing students on high school and college campuses to promote free markets, limited government, fiscal respon...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has listed multiple affiliated organizations on its tax filings; recent reporting and TPUSA’s own Form 990 identify at least Turning Point Endowment, Turning Point Action (a ...
Turning Point USA’s most highly paid employees are identified in recent analyses of the organization’s Form 990 filings and reporting: multiple documents list a small group of senior staff receiving t...
Turning Point USA publicly operates or is associated with at least two political action committees: Turning Point PAC (registered May 2, 2022) and an earlier vehicle, Turning Point America (a super PA...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) operates as a network of linked organizations — notably Turning Point Action (a 501(c)), the Turning Point Endowment, and America’s Turning Point, Inc. — that the group itsel...
Turning Point USA’s posture on religion and faith is portrayed in two dominant, competing narratives: critics portray the group and its founder as proponents of , while supporters frame the organizati...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) shares personnel ties with a mix of for-profit companies through individual board service and with closely affiliated nonprofit entities that are structurally connected to it...
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 ...
Charlie Kirk is best known as the co‑founder and long‑time leader of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the conservative student organization he launched with Bill Montgomery in 2012, and as the founder of Tu...
Available public salary-data aggregators show wide, inconsistent ranges for Turning Point USA staff pay: Glassdoor reports role-level medians such as about $49,329 for a Field Representative and up to...
Turning Point USA’s reported revenue and donor footprint grew markedly after 2020: revenues rose from nearly $40 million in 2020 to about $56 million in 2021, and the organization reported $85 million...
Available documents show that at least some Turning Point–named entities have had independent audited financial statements released: Turning Point USA’s related nonprofits and local Turning Point orga...
The available analyses show ; the documents reviewed describe donations to Turning Point USA and related entities, but they stop short of confirming a direct funding pipeline from a named "Turning Poi...
Turning Point USA’s board of directors has taken an assertive governance role since the organization’s founder’s death, installing Erika Kirk as CEO and chair and signaling continuity in mission and e...
Public records and reporting show Turning Point USA’s revenues and assets grew markedly from 2016–2022, with Charlie Kirk’s compensation rising alongside the nonprofit’s expansion; however, available ...