Michigan · Nonprofit
TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES
TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,108,880 to it, the largest being Fremont Area Community Foundation ($10,201,863). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Truenorth Community Services does
Mission
Truenorth Community Services empower people and strengthen community to inspire hope and build a brighter future. Truenorth Community Services will continually improve a fluid and flexible array of services to ensure our communities are prosperous destinations for all their members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The truenorth empower program provides heat and energy assistance to low income families in the state of michigan. The program is funded with a grant from the state of michigan through michigan agency for energy, consumers energy and dte. The requirements for financial assistance are set by the state of michigan. In addition to financial assistance, empower also provides additional supportive services designed to educate families about energy optimization and energy conservation in an effort to reduce reliance on state assistance.
$10,971,989 spentof which $8,237,024 as grants52% of program spendingTruenorth's housing and family services department provides housing, homeless prevention, family support services, children's services, and health and nutrition programs. A continuum of care plan is established for each family which focuses on establishing attainable goals and providing case managment to assure our families are moving toward self-sufficiency and a stable family environment. Our programs and services are focused on a hand up not a hand out and working to ensure that we improve lives for a lifetime.
$5,702,695 spentof which $4,379,611 as grants$47,211 earned by the program27% of program spendingOut-of-school time programs: our school-based out-of-school time programs provide after-school and summer programs for children within elementary and middle schools of baldwin, hart, hesperia, holton, muskegon heights academy, walkerville, and white cloud. These programs are funded by 21st century community learning center grants. These programs are entitled project focus (for our children's ultimate success). Activities focus on academic support, healthy eating, life-long learning skills, disguised learning, and outdoor and recreation activities. Additionally, the districts of fremont, grant, newaygo, and mason county eastern are served with a 6-week summer program and pentwater with an afterschool and summer program funded by the 32n grant provided by michigan's department of lifelong learning, education, advancement, and potential. These programs are called summer blast. Fremont, grant, and mason county eastern serve elementary and middle school students while pentwater and newaygo serve elementary only. Similar to project focus, these programs focus on academic support, recreation, and disguised learning.
$2,086,465 spent$70,986 earned by the program10% of program spendingTruenorth camp newaygo programs include the popular co-ed day camp, leadership development programs, steam education, environmental education, and grant-funded youth initiatives that empower young people to develop critical life skills. Nationally recognized for its research on building skills for college readiness, camp newaygo continues to be a key resource for fostering resilience, independence, and growth. The programs are funded through a combination of donations, grants, and participant fees, ensuring that camp newaygo remains accessible to all families.
$2,458,756 spentof which $110,965 as grants$1,405,806 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,219,905.
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 2024 to 2025, from $16M to $21M (+33%).
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 71% · 2018 73% · 2019 61% · 2020 68% · 2021 70% · 2022 63% · 2023 61% · 2024 65% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Beverly Cassidy
Chief executive officer/ p
Board chair
Gene Ford
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $1.1M.
10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 86% · 2019 90% · 2020 92% · 2021 79% · 2022 90% · 2023 81% — 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
56% of TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
86% of TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $851k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$851k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Truenorth Center for Nonprofit Housing · exempt
- Nccs Housing Families First · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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 TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,108,880 to it, the largest being Fremont Area Community Foundation ($10,201,863). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $12,108,880 in grants to TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- Fremont Area Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,201,863 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 36 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