True-north Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 393782952
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3109702472
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,667
- Expenses
- $1,089
- Assets
- $578
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lynnette Gonzalez (President)
People named in this filing
- Lynnette Gonzalez (President)
- Dr Bonnie Mitchell (Chairperson of the Board)
- Lawrence Wilkins (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
True-North Initiative is a nonprofit organization established in 2025 to provide supportive programming for at-risk and foster youth. The organization's activities include intensive workshop-based programming, career guidance, life skills development, addiction awareness support, guidance for youth aging out of foster systems, and ongoing participant support resources, including development of a technology-based application designed to provide continuous access to program resources.
What it reported doing in 2025
True-North Initiative conducted program development activities supporting delivery of a structured youth development program designed to assist at-risk and foster youth in build practical life skills, career awareness, and personal development competencies. Program planning included coordination of a multi-day intensive workshop model focused on topics such as career guidance, life skills-development, addiction awareness, and transition support for youth aging out of foster care systems. During the initial operating period, resources were directed toward securing appropriate program facilities and preparing instructional content and support materials necessary to implement a 5-day intensive camp serving approximately 14 participants. The program is designed to provide structured workshops, mentorship opportunities, and supportive resources intended to promote long-term stability and self-sufficiency. Program development activities also included planning for ongoing follow-up workshops and development of technology-enabled support resources intended to provide continuous access to educational materials and guidance beyond the initial program period.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 45.9%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.7%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 30% of revenue deployed · 45.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $500 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.