Minnesota · Nonprofit
TRUARTSPEAKS
TRUARTSPEAKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,000 to it, the largest being NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $320k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $469k
- Net assets
- $214k
What Truartspeaks does
Mission
To cultivate literacy, leadership, and social justice through the study & application of spoken word and hip hop culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Professional development:it takes a village and knowledge benefits us all when we share it towards the collective good. At Truartspeaks we believe that every young person, emerging artist, and inspiring leader can benefit from learning the best, latest, and tried and true cultural & art practices.with an extensive history of training educators (k-collegiate, public and private sector, community educators, etc), artists, and culture workers, Truartspeaks offers one on one consultations in a variety of areas, workshops, short and long term residencies, and more.we have experience in curriculum development, we have our own specific curriculum rooted in spoken word & hip hop pedagogy, a year-long curriculum rooted in the black literary tradition, hip hop songwriting & music production, and more."
$82,065 spent$1,648 earned by the program53% of program spendingArts exhibition and programming:cultural art performances and exhibition opportunities for artists, participants and community members.
$61,627 spent$7,321 earned by the program40% of program spendingHip hop education:Truartspeaks has a robust list of teaching artists in our network, each representative of some element or aspect of spoken word and hip hop culture, and beyond.our crew is rooted and trained in the pillars of our pedagogical practice, engaging in ongoing and regular development opportunities to ensure that they are constantly enhancing their craft along with their ability to facilitate the safest space possible for learners at all stages, of all ages, and make-ups.we believe in hip hop as a tool for personal and social transformation, never teaching art for art's sake, always staying true to the culture, and hoping to be a part of one's ever-growing knowledge of self through art practice.
$12,019 spent$8,919 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,711.
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 2022 to 2023, from $57k to $189k (+234%).
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.
96% of TRUARTSPEAKS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Latisha Jones
Executive director
Board chair
Anthony Galloway
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $138k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 TRUARTSPEAKS’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
TRUARTSPEAKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 TRUARTSPEAKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 79% · 2023 36% — diversifying over time.
“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
51% of TRUARTSPEAKS'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 $231k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TRUARTSPEAKS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TRUARTSPEAKS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRUARTSPEAKS: 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 TRUARTSPEAKS?
- TRUARTSPEAKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,000 to it, the largest being NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRUARTSPEAKS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $469,000 in grants to TRUARTSPEAKS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUARTSPEAKS?
- NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUARTSPEAKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 8 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