True Beginnings
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800905646
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7026669402
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,991
- Expenses
- $199,347
- Assets
- $644
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vera Moore (Executive Director)
- CaTrina Barbee (President)
People named in this filing
- Vera Moore (Executive Director)
- Domonique M Moore (Program Director)
- Monaye Marcia (Trauma Coach)
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
True Beginnings? primary exempt purpose is to support formerly incarcerated women through housing, education, life skills, employment readiness, family reunification, and financial literacy. By providing holistic, trauma-informed, and gender-responsive services, the organization reduces recidivism and empowers women to successfully reintegrate into society.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, the IMIN Project expanded its advocacy and community empowerment work by hosting neighborhood education sessions on housing rights, employment access, and civic participation. We launched a resource-sharing initiative connecting residents with supportive services, and piloted community engagement activities that encouraged returning citizens and their families to participate in local decision-making. These efforts advanced our mission of inspiring neighborhoods through advocacy, resource coordination, and leadership development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.5%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 8
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 29%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -198.4% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.5% of revenue deployed · 7.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.