Charlie Kirk’s Turning Level USA began with $50K

President Trump, VP Vance and Erika Kirk are scheduled to talk on the memorial as Individuals from everywhere in the nation attend the service honoring Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk’s conservative nonprofit, Turning Level USA, which has grown into a company with tens of tens of millions of {dollars} in property and annual income, started with only a $50,000 seed funding.

Conservative philanthropist Rebecca Dunn mirrored on how she and her late husband, Invoice Dunn, first met the activist almost 12 years in the past, when he was making an attempt to get Turning Level USA off the bottom, throughout a memorial honoring Kirk in Arizona on Sunday.

Tens of hundreds of individuals gathered at State Farm Stadium in Glendale on Sunday to pay their respects to the conservative activist who was shot and killed throughout a campus occasion at Utah Valley College earlier this month. 

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“I was so impressed that I invited him to come to our home and tell my husband and me more about his organization,” Dunn mentioned. “That young man, of course, was Charlie Kirk and his organization was Turning Point USA. Charlie told us how he wanted to start two chapters in North Florida. When asked how much money it would take, he told us he thought it would take about $50,000,” Dunn recalled. 

Philanthropist Rebecca Dunn speaks in the course of the memorial service for political activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium on September 21, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona.  ( Eric Thayer / Getty Photos)

Dunn recalled telling Kirk that if he raised the primary $25,000, then they might match it. 

“Two days later. Charlie called to say that he had raised the money he would. He was not in his hometown. He was not even in his home state. He was 20 years old. And yet he met our challenge. I laughed and I told him, I said, ‘well, Charlie, I guess we owe you a check’,” Dunn advised the gang. 

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Dunn and her husband continued offering Kirk with grants, every bigger than the final, ultimately reaching into the tens of millions, she mentioned.

Kirk’s plan to begin the group first started when he was 18 years previous. Reasonably than pursuing a level, Kirk dropped out of group school to co-found the group alongside Tea Celebration activist Invoice Montgomery, and in brief order, satisfied an onslaught of rich people and foundations to again him and his mission.

The Bradley Impression Fund, which contributed greater than $8 million in 2023, and the Dunn Basis, have been amongst his greatest backers, alongside the Deason Basis and Marcus Basis, which is tied to the billionaire Dwelling Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus.

Philanthropist Rebecca Dunn walks onstage in the course of the memorial service for political activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium on September 21, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona.  (Joe Raedle / Getty Photos)

His now multi-million greenback political empire has been on a mission to “promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government,” ever since, in response to its web site. Kirk supposed for his group to ascertain a foothold on each highschool and school campus within the nation to be able to unfold his political ideology.

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Regardless of Kirk’s premature passing, Kirk’s spouse, Erika, declared that the group would proceed pursuing its mission as she was tapped as CEO. 

Over the previous week, donations continued to roll in with philanthropist Lynn Friess, who was one of many early donors of the inspiration, asserting on social media that she’s going to donate $1 million to help new Turning Level USA chapters throughout the nation within the wake of Kirk’s assassination.  

Lynn Friess and her late husband, funding supervisor and political donor Foster Friess, have been early supporters of Turning Level USA.

A picture of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk is displayed on a display screen as Turning Level USA hosts a vigil for him at Colorado State College, on what was supposed be the subsequent cease on his talking tour, in Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S. Septemb (Cheney Orr  / Reuters)

“Foster always believed in Charlie’s vision and often said that helping Charlie build TPUSA was the best investment he ever made. I know he would be grateful to see how Charlie’s legacy is inspiring young Americans to stand up for faith and freedom,” Lynn Friess wrote in a notice that was posted on the X account of advocacy group Foster’s Outriders. 

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Andrew Kolvet, the chief producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” who additionally serves as a spokesperson for Turning Level USA, advised FOX Enterprise’ Maria Bartiromo on Monday that the group has acquired greater than 37,000 requests to begin new chapters across the nation.

So far, Kolvet mentioned, the group has 900 official, school-sanctioned school chapters and 1,200 highschool chapters throughout the nation.