Truenorth Freedom Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465767272
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 4043104704
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Women's Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,585
- Expenses
- $56,852
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anne Kerr (CEO, Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Anne Kerr (CEO, Secretary)
- Deborah Brazzel (Chairman)
- Alan Hansen (Director)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TrueNorth Freedom Project promotes sexual honesty and integrity by sharing biblical truth, hope-filled stories, and trusted resources that cultivate authentic relationships and spiritual growth. TrueNorth continued to develop and share materials related to sexual honesty and integrity and engaged with many individuals and organizations desiring to grow in their understanding of these issues, whether for themselves, someone they love, or an organization they lead.
What it reported doing in 2020
TrueNorths mission is to help parents understand their sacred sexuality, live it out in the power of Christ, and lead their children to do the same. We accomplish this through a live presentation: Allies: Parents and Kids Navigating a Sexualized Culture, a blog, a website, and collaboration with other like-minded organizations. TrueNorth is dedicated to the broader mission of ending sex-trafficking by going upstream and educating parents on how to engage more authentically with their children on topics related to bodies, sexuality, porn, and culture. Since future potential buyers of sex are boys (predominately) growing up in homes today, helping parents teach and model biblical sexuality is vitally important in order to reduce demand for sex trafficking in the future. Additionally, our work is helping the Christian Church become a safe place for people to go with their sexual struggles, sin, or wounding. Our compassionate, proactive approach is leading many parents to seek help with their own issues related to sexuality, enabling them to engage more authentically with their kids.The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 brought significant challenges to many organizations including TrueNorth. Live presentations were cancelled and fundraising efforts stymied. Consequently, TrueNorths board of directors including Anne Kerr (member and CEO) began meeting to examine other potential ways to grow the organization and increase impact. Conversations with a collaborative partner nonprofit organization, Be Broken Ministries, began. On August 24, 2020, the board of directors voted unanimously to dissolve TrueNorth Freedom Project and transfer all assets to Be Broken Ministries (EIN 20-0087201). TrueNorths founder and CEO, Anne Kerr, began working as a Family Care Specialist for Be Broken effective 9/15/20 while continuing to complete most of the duties related to dissolution.Be Broken Ministries Family Care arm is currently ministering to families in many of the same ways TrueNorth has been. Their mission is to help men, women, and families move from sexual brokenness to wholeness in Christ and equip others to do the same. While not an official merger, the organizations are merging assets, content, and with the addition of Anne Kerr to their staff, employees. We are thrilled for all the families and individuals TrueNorth has ministered to over six years of ministry and look forward to reaching even more individuals and families through the larger, more established organization of Be Broken (bebroken.com).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 4
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -318.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2014 to 2020
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.