Truth Project Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463044821
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
8325676923
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Reported finances

Revenue
$128,012
Expenses
$179,662
Assets
$34,638

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Nike Blue (Vice President)
  • Christopher Cox (President)

People named in this filing

  • Dominique Hollins (Director)
  • Nike Blue (Vice President)
  • Christopher Cox (President)

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

The T.R.U.T.H. Project, Inc. educates and mobilizes queer communities of color and allies through social arts that promote mental, emotional, and sexual health.

What it reported doing in 2025

HIV/STI Education, Outreach, and Community Engagement: The T.R.U.T.H. Project, Inc. delivered culturally responsive HIV and STI education, outreach, and community-led programming for Black and Hispanic LGBTQ+ communities and people living with HIV. Activities included community advisory boards, peer outreach and linkage to HIV care, a community-informed syphilis awareness campaign, World AIDS Day programs in Houston and Austin, and educational panels and trainings. The organization reported at least 309 education-and-empowerment attendance or service instances during the 2025 reporting periods.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 52.6%; rating input score 53

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -40.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -25.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 52.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $94K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.