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Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services

Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,672 to it, the largest being Greater Washington Community Foundation ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$38k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$76k
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services's revenue fell 71% between 2021 and 2024.

Operating margin−95% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−34% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,813 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($132k) Expenses 100 ($48k) Net assets 100 ($106k)2022 Revenue 35 ($46k) Expenses 128 ($61k) Net assets 86 ($91k)2023 Revenue 4 ($5k) Expenses 95 ($45k) Net assets 48 ($51k)2024 Revenue 29 ($38k) Expenses 155 ($74k) Net assets 15 ($15k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (29)Expenses (155)Net assets (15)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,424 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$85k
21
$15k
22
$40k
23
$36k
24
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $6k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services.

40%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100%broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

63% of Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.

CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services?
Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,672 to it, the largest being Greater Washington Community Foundation ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $75,672 in grants to Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services?
Greater Washington Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 4funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing