Minnesota · Nonprofit
TRUE DIRECTIONS INC
TRUE DIRECTIONS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,500 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $648k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $-35139
What True Directions Inc does
Mission
Provide residential housing for chemical dependents in local area as well as mental health & living skills. Number of clients can vary by month - up to 40 clients maximum. Both selfpay and subsidy pay from government or insurance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide residential housing for chemical dependents in local area as well as mental health & living skills. Number of clients can vary month by month - up to 32 clients maximum. Both self pay and sudsidy pay from government or insurance.
$598,232 spent97% of program spendingProvide residential housing for chemical dependents in local area, as well as mental health & living skills. Number of clients can vary month by month - up to 32 clients maximum. Both self pay and sudsidy pay from government or insurance.
$19,307 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $617,539.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $301k to $455k (+51%).
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: 2018 1% · 2020 29% · 2021 1% · 2022 8% · 2023 15% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of TRUE DIRECTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $10k.
From the IRS filings of TRUE DIRECTIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. 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
TRUE DIRECTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 TRUE DIRECTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 58% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
77% of TRUE DIRECTIONS INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
TRUE DIRECTIONS INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRUE DIRECTIONS INC
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRUE DIRECTIONS INC: 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 TRUE DIRECTIONS INC?
- TRUE DIRECTIONS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,500 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRUE DIRECTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $21,500 in grants to TRUE DIRECTIONS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUE DIRECTIONS INC?
- MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $16,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUE DIRECTIONS INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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