President Trump, VP Vance and Erika Kirk are planned to speak in the monument while Americans from all over the country attend the service in honor of Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk’s conservative non -profit, Turn Point USA, which has grown into an organization with tens of millions of dollars in assets and annual turnover, started with just a seed investment of $ 50,000.
Conservative philanthropist Rebecca Dunn thought about how she and her deceased husband, Bill Dunn, the activist met for the first time 12 years ago, when he tried to get Turn Point USA off the ground, during a monument in honor of Kirk in Arizona on Sunday.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in State Farm Stadium in Glendale on Sunday to express their respect to the conservative activist who was shot and killed earlier this month during a campus event at Utah Valley University.
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA has supported Charlie’s Turning Point for years
“I was so impressed that I invited him to get to our house and tell my husband and me more about his organization,” Dunn said. “That young man was of course, Charlie Kirk and his organization was Turn Point Usa. Charlie told us how he wanted to start two chapters in Noord -Florida. When he was asked how much money it would take, he told us that he would take about $ 50,000,” Dunn recalled.
Philantrop Rebecca Dunn speaks during the memorial service for political activist Charlie Kirk in State Farm Stadium on September 21, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona. (Eric Thayer / Getty images)
Dunn remembered that he told Kirk that if he picked up the first $ 25,000, they would match it.
“Two days later. Charlie called to say that he had collected the money that he would do. He was not in his hometown. He was not even in his home. He was 20 years old. And yet he met our challenge. I laughed and I told him,” Well, Charlie, I think we owed you a check, “said Dunn.
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Dunn and her husband continued to give Kirk subsidies, each larger than the previous one, who eventually reached the millions, she said.
Kirk’s plan to start the organization started for the first time when he was 18 years old. Instead of striving for a diploma, Kirk stopped from the Community College to find the organization together with teaparty activist Bill Montgomery, and in a short order convinced an attack of rich individuals and foundations to support him and his mission.
The Bradley Impact Fund, which contributed more than $ 8 million in 2023, and the Dunn Foundation, were among its biggest backers, next to the Deason Foundation and Marcus Foundation, bound to the co-founder Bernie Marcus of the billionaire Home Depot.
Philantrop Rebecca Dunn runs on stage during the memorial service for political activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium on September 21, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona. (Joe Raedle / Getty images)
His now several millions of dollars political empire has been on a mission to “promote the principles of freedom, free markets and limited government,” since its website. Kirk was planning that his organization has a foothold in every high school and university campus in the nation to spread its political ideology.
Despite the early death of Kirk, Kirk’s wife, Erika, stated that the organization would continue to pursue her mission because she was tapped as a CEO.
In the past week, donations continued to come in with philanthropist Lynn Friess, who was one of the early donors of the foundation, announced On social media That she will donate $ 1 million to support new chapters of the turning point throughout the country after the murder of Kirk.
Lynn Friess and her deceased husband, investment manager and political donor Foster Friess, were early supporters of Turning Point USA.
An image of the killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk is displayed on a screen when Turning Point USA organizes a wake for him at the Colorado State University, on what was supposed to be the next stop on his speaking tour, in Fort Collins, Colorado, Us Septemb (Cheney Orr / Reuters)
“Foster always believed in Charlie’s vision and often said that Charlie Tpusa was to build TPUSA the Best investment He once made. I know he would be grateful to see how Charlie’s legacy inspires young Americans to stand up for faith and freedom, “wrote Lynn Friess in a note posted on the X report of the offenders of the interest group Foster.
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To date, Kolvet said, the organization has 900 official lecture chapters and 1200 chapters in high school throughout the country.
