California · Nonprofit
TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK
TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,328,843 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($4,536,655). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What True North Organizing Network does
Mission
Develops leadership in communities with common values across tribal lands, del norte, and humboldt counties. True north supports families, elders, youth, and individuals of diverse faith traditions, races, cultures, and economic capacities working together for powerful change. United, using the power of relationships and a disciplined community organizing model, true north leaders are courageously challenging social, economic, and environmental injustice in our region.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Develops leadership in communities with common values across tribal lands, del norte, and humboldt counties. True north supports families, elders, youth, and individuals of diverse faith traditions, races, cultures, and economic capacities working together for powerful change. United, using the power of relationships and a disciplined community organizing model, true north leaders are courageously challenging social, economic, and environmental injustice in our region.
$1,459,495 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,459,495.
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.
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 $1.1M to $2.1M (+96%).
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: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Terry Supahan
Executive director
Board chair
Ron White
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $25k → $1.7M.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ORGANIZING NETWORK’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 ORGANIZING NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 ORGANIZING NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 45% · 2019 80% · 2020 83% · 2021 44% · 2022 58% · 2023 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
92% of TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488k 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.
Organizations like TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
31%
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 TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK: 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 NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK?
- TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,328,843 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($4,536,655). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $8,328,843 in grants to TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $4,536,655 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 20 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