North Carolina · Nonprofit
True Ridge
True Ridge (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,514,272 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($467,860). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $655k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $445k
What True Ridge does
Mission
True Ridge provides bilingual services to assist families toward safety and self-support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
General Advocacy Program: We provide direct services such as case management and court accompaniment, as well referral to community members of Henderson, Polk, and Transylvania counties, NC. We also serve as liaison with local agencies for the community and assist its members in navigating social and legal systems by providing bilingual translation and interpretation services. We seek to integrate and strengthen our community by encouraging members toward self-sufficiency. During 2025 we had 1820 clients, 1907 services, 137 emergency assistance, 521 referrals, 37 court accompaniments, provided 99 hours of interpretation and 54 translation services.
$398,365 spentof which $46,963 as grants$77,668 earned by the program100% of program spendingEducation Program (La Promesa): We provide Hispanic students assistance and guidance with higher education needs such as college applications, FAFSA completion, RDS issues and adult continuing education. Our program extends financial assistance for both direct academic (tuition, books, supplies) and indirect costs (housing, food, transportation). In 2025, the program serviced approximately 147 students and provided $11,813.16 indirect and indirect monetary academic assistance.
Health Program: True Ridges health program promotes wellness through education and prevention, providing the Hispanic community with referrals for both physical and behavioral health concerns. In 2025, we made 55 behavioral health referrals for mental health. . Family Immigration Program: The Family Immigration Program mission is to provide affordable immigration legal representation to residents of Western North Carolina. The program began in 2023 due to the need for low-bono immigration representation in our area. In 2025, we had 112 consults, 75 referrals, and 200 interpretation hours, and 50 hours of document translation. . Our clients are 66.67% North America, 17.59% South America, 14.81% Central America and the Caribbean, 1.85% Europe, 1.85% Middle East, and 0.93% from Asia.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $398,365.
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 2023 to 2024, from $209k to $445k (+113%).
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: 2023 1% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of True Ridge’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Melisa S Escobar
Executive Director
Board chair
Dee Redwine
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $127k → $285k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Ridge’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 Ridge has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
50% 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 Ridge.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 44% · 2021 27% · 2022 36% · 2023 53% — 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
20% of True Ridge's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
87% of True Ridge's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $355k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Ridge runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like True Ridge
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds True Ridge?
- True Ridge (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,514,272 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($467,860). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does True Ridge have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,514,272 in grants to True Ridge, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of True Ridge?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $467,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like True Ridge find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 19 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