Illinois · Nonprofit
TRUE TO LIFE FOUNDATION
TRUE TO LIFE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being DELIVERING GOOD INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $471k
What True to Life Foundation does
Mission
To promote competent, complete and creative families through education, crisis intervention and restoration programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Life of a child, icjia and various after school programs done
$1,505,108 spent$1,689,104 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,505,108.
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 2018 to 2019, from $140k to $408k (+191%).
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: 2017 93% · 2018 91% · 2019 92% · 2020 90% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 72% · 2024 96% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TRUE TO LIFE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Velinda Alexander
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Against its field
TRUE TO LIFE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TRUE TO LIFE FOUNDATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 TO LIFE FOUNDATION: 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 TO LIFE FOUNDATION?
- TRUE TO LIFE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being DELIVERING GOOD INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRUE TO LIFE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to TRUE TO LIFE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUE TO LIFE FOUNDATION?
- DELIVERING GOOD INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUE TO LIFE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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