Colorado · Nonprofit
TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM
TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $831,624 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($193,250). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $370k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $832k
- Net assets
- $492k
What True North Youth Program does
Mission
Our MISSION: True North inspires individual determination and teaches self-advocacy by providing year round positive youth development programs for teens in our rural San Miguel region who have limited access to resources, opportunities, and support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
True North Youth Program's 2025 highlights showcase a comprehensive array of offerings, with 48 programs delivered and 414 total participations, including free access for students across three school districts and homeschoolers. Throughout the school year, True North provided weekly academic tutoring (Base Camp) to 38 students, offered 28 sessions within the Telluride High School AVID program focusing on 11th and 12th graders, and delivered weekly in-school support in the Nucla Senior Seminar and the Norwood Tech Building. Key program areas included extensive college and career preparation, emphasizing career exploration, resume building, cover letter writing, interview preparation, and connections to apprenticeships. The program supported college applications, visited regional college campuses, and awarded 11 new scholarships to graduating seniors, while continuing to support 23 college students from previous years. Through its Jobs Connect 2025 program, True North partnered with 14 businesses from Telluride to Naturita to secure summer jobs for local teens, also providing scholarships for Trades School. True North's Trading Post, located in the Norwood schools' tech building,…
$326,894 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $326,894.
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 2023 to 2024, from $412k to $530k (+29%).
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: 2020 45% · 2021 32% · 2022 18% · 2023 27% · 2024 27% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Vivian Russell
Executive Director
Board chair
Rose Gutfeld
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $31k → $142k.
9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 YOUTH PROGRAM’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 YOUTH PROGRAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% 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 YOUTH PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 100% · 2019 38% · 2020 35% · 2021 33% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% — 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
44% of TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
59% of TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $341k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $491k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 YOUTH PROGRAM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 YOUTH PROGRAM?
- TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $831,624 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($193,250). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $831,624 in grants to TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $193,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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