Skip to content

Puerto Rico · Nonprofit

True Self Foundation Inc

True Self Foundation Inc (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $477,631 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($169,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$591k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$478k
Net assets
$579k
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What True Self Foundation Inc does

Mission

Advancing transgender community equality rights. Also the Organization educated the LGBT community and their allies in their rights needs and responsibilities by organizing seminars and making educational resources and material available to them. In addition the Organization provides access to legal and health services to transgender people by creating a network of sensible and educated professionals willing to work with the transgender community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarships of 3 thousand each were awarded for gender affirmation operations. A camp was held for young people from 14 to 21 years of age from the LGBTQIA+ community. Financial aid was given to people in the community for small projects that benefited the LGBTQIA+ community. Free binders were handed out to trans men. Name changes were made. The 5k marathon was performed.

    $235,599 spent$590,634 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $235,599.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($981) Expenses 100 ($204) Net assets 100 ($777)2018 Revenue 4190 ($41k) Expenses 5644 ($12k) Net assets 3908 ($30k)2019 Revenue 11587 ($114k) Expenses 45327 ($92k) Net assets 6636 ($52k)2020 Revenue 16427 ($161k) Expenses 67673 ($138k) Net assets 9608 ($75k)2021 Revenue 28017 ($275k) Expenses 96701 ($197k) Net assets 19592 ($152k)2022 Revenue 60759 ($596k) Expenses 175896 ($359k) Net assets 50122 ($389k)2023 Revenue 42998 ($422k) Expenses 190413 ($388k) Net assets 54417 ($423k)2025 Revenue 60197 ($591k) Expenses 284484 ($580k) Net assets 74467 ($579k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'25
Revenue (60197)Expenses (284484)Net assets (74467)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 2021 to 2022, from $162k to $393k (+142%).

$777
$30k
$58k
$79k
$162k
$393k
$470k
$609k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of True Self Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,984 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$777
’17
$30k
’18
$21k
’19
$23k
’20
$78k
’21
$237k
’22
$33k
’23
$10k
’25
12
months of
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.

2021202220232025
Listed7777
Joined·+1+0·
No longer listed·10·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $8k → $98k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Self Foundation 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 Self Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

96% 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 Self Foundation Inc.

35%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 43% · 2023 53% — 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

71% of True Self Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

79% of True Self Foundation Inc'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 $75k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Puerto Rico, across 4 states.

NY
MA
IN
GA

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Puerto Rico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $274k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

True Self Foundation Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 979 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve12.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)123% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 979 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like True Self Foundation 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 Puerto Rico

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

41% of spending goes to programs.

Program 41%Management 37%Fundraising 23%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 Self Foundation Inc: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds True Self Foundation Inc?
True Self Foundation Inc (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $477,631 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($169,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does True Self Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $477,631 in grants to True Self Foundation Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of True Self Foundation Inc?
TIDES CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $169,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like True Self Foundation Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Puerto Rico. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Play a game about who funds True Self →

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 11 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