Turner 12 Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Turner 12 prepares students to become college graduates and productive citizens through educational enrichment, mentoring, community involvement and exposing students to higher learning and life-changing experiences.
- Income
- $166,118
- Spending
- $204,254
- Reserves
- 9.1 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 96%
- Highest pay
- $70,286, executive dir.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $172,040 spent. The Turner 12, Inc organization focuses on one specific program...The Turner 12 Program. Four subprograms are underneath this one including the Academic Enrichment Program, our Summer of Choice, Parent Meetings and Spring Break College Tours. The Academic Enrichment sessions provide additional academic support in areas of writing, reading and test taking strategies that keeps our students ahead of their peers. The Academic Enrichment impacts The 12. Our Parent Meetings are designed to inform and encourage our students, as well as their parents, on our monthly themes while also acknowledging our students' academic achievement, per each six week grading period. The Summer of Choice impact fluctuates between 15-20 individuals based on friends invited by The 12. Lastly, the Summer of Choice program is a holistic curriculum that speaks to our students? overall development as young men and women as well as future leaders within their communities. Parent Meetings are usually 25-30 in attendance. Our annual Spring Break College tours provide students with first-hand experiences and knowledge of area institutions of higher learning that proves advantageous, over the course of six-year experience, by assisting students with making the most educated decision about the college/university that will be suited for them post high school graduation. Students are able to interface with college students, professors and other personnel who provide invaluable information and insight to both the pros/cons of college life thus enabling students to get a truer understanding of what to expect over the course of the four years of their college/university experience.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Worth knowing.
Status was revoked on May 15, 2023 for not filing returns for three years, and reinstated on May 15, 2023.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since November 2023.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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