Trunorth Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821608769
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3236952599
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,865
- Expenses
- $384,170
- Assets
- $21,741
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Hasira Ashemu (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Cassandra Johnson (COO): $117,000 total reported compensation
- Hasira Ashemu (President & CEO): $75,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TruNorth Foundation cultivates the conditions for individuals and communities to reclaim identity, strengthen belonging, develop leadership, and build collective power to create healthier, more connected, and thriving communities. Through community-centered learning, cultural healing practices, leadership development, and ecosystem building, we support people in becoming the architects of the change they seek in their own lives and communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Delivered TruNorth's human development program through a cohort based model combining in person and virtual learning, access to the Community Healers Network, and immersive retreat experiences. During the 2025 program cycle, Manhood Reforged engaged a circle of Black men in self mastery, emotional well being, leadership development, accountability, and community connection. Participants also contributed as panelists at the Manhood Reforged Community Convening and enrolled in a Black Men's Self Mastery Healing Retreat scheduled for February 2026.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 69%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -817.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 50%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 69% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $265K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $117K · 5 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $117K reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.