Missouri · Nonprofit
TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC
TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,426,858 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($1,972,715). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What True North of Columbia Inc does
Mission
To empower all to create a safer community by providing safety, shelter, education, and transitional support for those who have been affected by intimate domestic and sexual violence, stalking and sex trafficking.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, the true north emergency shelter served 266 residents, including 155 women, 107 children, 3 men, and 1 non-conforming or transgender individual, providing over 6,180 nights of emergency shelter and 10,436 supportive advocacy services. The average length of stay for families was 23 days. Services included counseling, case management, crisis intervention, domestic violence and sexual assault education, safety planning, financial assistance, court and hospital advocacy, parenting sessions, individual child sessions, assistance with ex parte orders of protection, support groups including life skills sessions, and victim advocacy. The primary goal of the emergency shelter is to keep victims of domestic violence and sexual assault safe by providing a secure and confidential residence and ensuring that every resident leaves the program safer than when they arrived. Resident destinations often indicate program effectiveness. In 2024, 33.84% of those exiting the shelter transitioned to safe, permanent housing or extended transitional housing of two years or more, 52.10% moved to safe, temporary locations, and 4.69% returned to unsafe situations. Among residents completing exit…
$1,167,550 spentof which $80,097 as grants65% of program spendingIn 2024, true north's transitional living program served 16 families, including 15 women, 17 children, and 1 man, providing 5,388 nights of transitional housing and 546 supportive services such as case management, crisis intervention, housing advocacy, counseling, court-related assistance, individual child sessions, child care, support groups, and life skills classes. The average length of stay for families was 163 days. The primary goal of the transitional living program is to provide stable housing while reducing the effects of domestic or sexual violence and removing barriers to survivor self-sufficiency. In 2024, seven families exited the program, with all but one transitioning in place to safe, affordable, permanent housing, and 100% of these families successfully completed the program. Three new families entered the program and obtained safe, affordable housing with rent and utilities subsidized by true north through a department of justice - office of violence against women grant, and they also received assistance with security deposits from other agency resources. Participants were offered counseling, case management, support groups, life skills training, and other…
$112,563 spentof which $112,489 as grants6% of program spendingIn 2024, true north's non-residential services program served 535 victims of domestic violence or sexual assault, providing over 5,910 supportive advocacy services. These services included individual counseling, support groups, crisis intervention, case management, domestic violence and sexual assault education, safety planning, financial assistance, court and hospital advocacy, parenting sessions, child education sessions, and assistance with ex parte and full orders of protection. The primary goal of non-residential services is to empower victims through education and support. Among participants completing exit interviews and surveys in 2024, 85.71% reported progress toward safety goals, 100% reported progress in addressing emotional needs, 83.33% reported progress on legal goals, 100% reported progress in building support systems, and 100% reported progress in utilizing community resources. Additionally, 96.67% of respondents reported feeling more hopeful about the future, and 96.67% reported a better understanding of domestic violence and sexual assault as a result of the services received.
$523,488 spentof which $93 as grants29% of program spendingTrue north's outreach program provides opportunities for individuals to become involved in changing attitudes and preventing domestic violence and sexual assault. In 2024, true north staff facilitated 47 presentations and educational sessions for civic organizations, students, medical and law enforcement personnel, and other service provider agencies, reaching over 3,610 individuals.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,803,601.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $3.0M (+118%).
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: 2017 64% · 2018 71% · 2019 67% · 2020 73% · 2021 40% · 2022 64% · 2023 55% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $63k → $111k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC’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
TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 71% · 2019 41% · 2020 35% · 2021 94% · 2022 44% · 2023 45% — 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.
How long its funders stay
53% of TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $634k 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
TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.4M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC?
- TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,426,858 to it, the largest being VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION ($1,972,715). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $3,426,858 in grants to TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC?
- VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,972,715 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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