Texas · Nonprofit
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
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
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 spent37% of program spendingVideography 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 spent29% of program spendingCultural 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 spent17% of program spendingDigital
$50,331 spent10% of program spendingCommunity Engagement
$28,795 spent6% of program spendingMutual Support
$3,294 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $481,280.
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.
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%).
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Ismael Melendez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Trucha has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Trucha: 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 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