Trauma Resilience Understanding & Education True Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861330971
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,819
- Expenses
- $25,419
- Assets
- $40,931
- Liabilities
- $338
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RENEE DEBOARD-LUCAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THRU 10-15-24)
People named in this filing
- ALISON KRAMER-KUHN (DIRECTOR AND CHAIR)
- RENEE DEBOARD-LUCAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THRU 10-15-24)
- BRIAN GARDNER (DIRECTOR AND VICE CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the trauma resilience understanding & education true center inc. True center is to increase access to trauma-focused evidence-based care and prevention services for d.c.-area children and families. Our approach includes culturally competent mental health services training and support for child-serving systems and promoting public understanding of trauma and prevention. Our vision is that all children and families have equal access to trauma-informed care and trauma is understood treated and prevented.
What it reported doing in 2024
True center hosted an event in which volunteers assembled calming kits for children in the dc impacted by trauma. The kits were hand-decorated and contained donated items to help children calm and cope such as fidgets art and journaling supplies and a breathing exercise. The kits were distributed to partner organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 30.7%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -115.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -73.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -36.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 30.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.