Colorado · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $38k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services does
Mission
We empower young adults along the Front Range to make the transition from surviving to thriving, to be self-sufficient, and to be positive contributors in their community. Using a peer support model, we provide structure to help them set their own goals and help each individual to choose their path and to make conscious decisions to break unhealthy family cycles. We are a change agent, rallying our community to offer the opportunity for our vulnerable young adults to create their own narrative.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Polaris House is the residential property where True North's independent transitional housing program is run. It has been in operation since 2003, and for over 18 years, Polaris House has served youth who are survivors of abuse, neglect, addiction, delinquency, homelessness and those transitioning out of foster care services. We have provided safe, sober, supportive, affordable and compassionate transitional housing to over 165 underserved and deserving young adults between the ages of 16 - 26. Our scholarship fund supports tuition awards for students pursuing vocational training opportunities, associates degrees, community college programs, and education at the University of Colorado. We partner with Achieving Academic Success, CU Guardian Scholars, and the TRIO program to help our scholars pursue their goals.
$66,503 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,503.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $336k to $256k (−24%).
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
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.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is 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.
Against its field
Northern Star Charities Inc DBA True North Young Adult Services's revenue fell 71% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Colorado
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
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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.
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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 4 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing