About Turrell Fund
The Turrell Fund is highly focused and strategic, directing all of its documented giving to a single organization, Let's Grow Kids. Their support appears aimed at statewide early childhood system change and advocacy rather than direct service delivery, signaling a preference for policy-driven, capacity-building efforts in early childhood care and education. The foundation makes repeat, sizable investments in one core partner to advance long-term reform goals.
Focus Areas
State-level early childhood policy advocacy (Let's Grow Kids)Building and financing statewide early care and pre-K systemsPublic awareness and coalition-building for childcare reform
Giving Approach
Concentrated funding: few but large grants to a single repeat grantee (multi-grant, multi-year support focused on advocacy and system change).
Funding Style
program-restricted fundingdirect service / program delivery supportoperational program fundingshort-term / project-based grants
About Turrell Fund
Turrell Fund’s documented giving is built around a small set of large, repeated commitments to early childhood systems change. The clearest example is its multi-year support for Let's Grow Kids in Burlington, Vermont: $452,000 in 2025 after $451,000 in both 2024 and 2023. That pattern shows a funder that backs long-term policy and advocacy work rather than one-time project bursts. Recent grants also point to a broad early-childhood portfolio that reaches beyond one state. In New Jersey, Turrell Fund gave $311,000 to Advocates for Children of New Jersey in 2023, then followed with $153,500 in 2024 and $152,000 in 2025. It also supported Court Appointed Special Advocates - Passaic County, Vermont Community Loan Fund (vermont Early Childhood Alliance), and New Jersey-based partners working on child welfare, pediatric care, and family support. Across the grant list, the foundation favors program support for organizations advancing prenatal-to-age-5 work, childcare access, and cross-system coordination. The repeated renewals suggest a relationship-based grantmaking approach centered on organizations already carrying statewide or regional implementation and advocacy roles.
What Turrell Fund Funds
Early childhood policy and advocacy are the foundation’s most visible theme. Turrell Fund gave $100,000 in 2025 to Community Foundation of New Jersey (first 1000 Days) for program support, alongside other support for statewide systems work in the early years. Health and developmental supports also appear in the grant list. In 2023, the foundation awarded $125,825 to Hackensack University Medical Foundation for program support, and it later backed New Jersey pediatric and family-health infrastructure through strategic initiatives tied to healthy development. Child welfare and court-linked supports are another strand. Turrell Fund gave $171,000 in 2023 to Court Appointed Special Advocates - Passaic County and renewed that support at $153,500 in 2024, indicating continued interest in services for children involved in the legal system. Education and enrichment show up as well. The foundation made program-support grants to St Benedict's Preparatory School and Saint Vincent Academy, and it supported New Jersey Symphony, suggesting some funding for youth-serving educational and arts organizations alongside its early childhood work.
How Turrell Fund Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.8M
Total Assets
$120.4M
Total Revenue
$4.4M
Total Expenses
$7.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $3K and $25K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$3K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Regional14 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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