THE KEVIN TURNER FOUNDATION
EIN 27-4027325 · Fund Raising & Fund Distribution - Medical Research (H12)
What they do
THE KEVIN TURNER FOUNDATION WAS STARTED IN 2010, AFTER KEVINS DIAGNOSIS and A SUBSEQUENT PAPER WRITTEN BY DR. ANN MCKEE LINKING ALS and CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY (CTE). PEOPLE WERE JUST STARTING to TALK ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS of CONCUSSION, and CERTAINLY NO ONE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE POTENTIAL LINK to ALS and OTHER MOTOR NEURON DISEASE AT THAT TIME. SEEING THAT NFL PLAYERS WERE 4-8 TIMES MORE LIKELY to PRESENT WITH ALS, and KNOWING THE BRUTALITY of THE GAME and ERA KEVIN PLAYED, WE BELIEVED THAT DR. MCKEE WAS REALLY ON to SOMETHING. WE WANTED to FIGHT to STOP ALS, BUT IF IT WAS, IN FACT, CONNECTED to CTE and REPETITIVE HEAD TRAUMA, THEN WE FELT WE HAD A DUTY to WARN and HOPEFULLY PREVENT THE DEVASTATION of THIS DISEASE for SOMEONE ELSE. SINCE THEN, WE HAVE BROUGHT THE LEADING SCIENTISTS IN ALS and CTE TOGETHER for DIALOGUE and HAVE ENCOURAGED and FACILITATED COLLABORATION; WE HAVE TAKEN OUR MESSAGE to CAPITOL HILL and TESTIFIED BEFORE THE U.S. SENATE; WEVE HAD PEOPLE CLIMB MOUNT
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TAMARA DADDPRINCIPAL OFFICER
About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 2011
- Location
- 6 WILD WING CT, BRENTWOOD, TN 37027-8961
- County
- Williamson
- In care of
- % TAMARA ALAN
- Primary officer
- Tamara Dadd
How to reach them
Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2025
- Tax period began
- January 1, 2025
- Return type
- 990EZ
- Tax preparer
- KRAFTCPAS PLLC
- NTEE classification
- Fund Raising & Fund Distribution - Medical Research (H12)
- IRS tax category
- Fund Raising & Fund Distribution