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Trucha

Trucha (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,640,939 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($334,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$634k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$609k
8/19 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Trucha does

Mission

Trucha's mission is to inform our readers, inspire our community, and build a collective infrastructure to proudly share the stories of our Gente for the world. Our vision is to sustain a platform to showcase the authentic stories and the creativity of our community and cultivate a grassroots narrative of the frontera.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Editorial Program- Published 130 articles (60 arts/culture, 70 social justice), with 1/3 of published works (39 articles) community written, 2/3 written in house (91 articles) awarded 2026 Pluma Libre fellowship, published Truchita Zine: 1 zine per quarter.

    $178,952 spent
    37% of program spending
  2. Videography Program - Published 12 videos per quarter totaling 48. We had over 28,600 views on our youtube channel. We recorded 10 total podcast episodes

    $138,152 spent
    29% of program spending
  3. Cultural Program: Art Gallery 4 main, 3 pop ups, Creative Infrastructure series with over 40 artists being provided with professional development skills, Ponte Creative Printshop

    $81,756 spent
    17% of program spending
  4. Digital

    $50,331 spent
    10% of program spending
  5. Community Engagement

    $28,795 spent
    6% of program spending
  6. Mutual Support

    $3,294 spent
    1% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $481,280.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($18k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2021 Revenue 1022 ($179k) Expenses 642 ($79k) Net assets 1818 ($106k)2022 Revenue 2737 ($480k) Expenses 1899 ($233k) Net assets 6880 ($402k)2023 Revenue 3538 ($620k) Expenses 4345 ($533k) Net assets 8359 ($488k)2024 Revenue 6604 ($1.2M) Expenses 6545 ($803k) Net assets 14414 ($842k)2025 Revenue 3621 ($634k) Expenses 7061 ($867k) Net assets 10433 ($609k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (3621)Expenses (7061)Net assets (10433)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $488k to $842k (+73%).

$6k
$106k
$402k
$488k
$842k
$610k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Trucha’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’20
$100k
’21
$246k
’22
$86k
’23
$354k
’24
−$233k
’25
8.2
months of
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.

Board chair

Ismael Melendez

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed225568
Joined···+0+1+3
No longer listed···001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $68k → $764k.

8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Trucha’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

Trucha has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

81% 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 Trucha.

13%
largest funder
36%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% — 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

Trucha draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.

MN
NY
CA
MO
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Trucha has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−37% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)105% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Trucha

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

56% of spending goes to programs.

Program 56%Management 31%Fundraising 13%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds Trucha?
Trucha (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,640,939 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($334,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Trucha have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,640,939 in grants to Trucha, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Trucha?
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $334,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Trucha find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing