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True Responders

True Responders (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being ATKINSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$81k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$120k
Net assets
$85k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What True Responders does

Mission

True Responders exists to provide first responders the means to meet urgent needs for those in crisis.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. True Responders exists to provide first responders the means to meet urgent needs for those in crisis.

    $26,310 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,310.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($43k) Expenses 100 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2020 Revenue 54 ($24k) Expenses 58 ($28k) Net assets 86 ($29k)2021 Revenue 134 ($58k) Expenses 50 ($24k) Net assets 189 ($63k)2022 Revenue 186 ($81k) Expenses 71 ($34k) Net assets 255 ($85k)
2019202020212022
Revenue (186)Expenses (71)Net assets (255)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $33k to $67k (+102%).

$33k
$67k
$101k
$85k
2019202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of True Responders’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’19
−$5k
’20
$34k
’21
$46k
’22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $35k.

Funder
'20
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Km Foundationunclassified
$10k
funders
1
1
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of True Responders’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 Responders leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — 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

92% of True Responders's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

True Responders runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,237 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin57% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

0%

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 Responders: 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 Responders?
True Responders (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being ATKINSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does True Responders have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $120,000 in grants to True Responders, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of True Responders?
ATKINSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like True Responders find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2019–2022), 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