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TRUE RIDGE

EIN 82-1094679 HENDERSONVLLE, NC

Revenue 2025
$675,198
Expenses 2025
$493,779

Program services were 80.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
204 6TH AVE W

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

True Ridge provides bilingual services to assist families toward safety and self-support.

  • General Advocacy Program: We provide direct services such as case management and court accompaniment, as well referral to community members of Henderson, Polk, and Transylvania counties, NC. We also serve as liaison with local agencies for the community and assist its members in navigating social and legal systems by providing bilingual translation and interpretation services. We seek to integrate and strengthen our community by encouraging members toward self-sufficiency. During 2025 we had 1820 clients, 1907 services, 137 emergency assistance, 521 referrals, 37 court accompaniments, provided 99 hours of interpretation and 54 translation services.

    Expenses $398,365 · Grants $46,963 · Revenue $77,668

  • Education Program (La Promesa): We provide Hispanic students assistance and guidance with higher education needs such as college applications, FAFSA completion, RDS issues and adult continuing education. Our program extends financial assistance for both direct academic (tuition, books, supplies) and indirect costs (housing, food, transportation). In 2025, the program serviced approximately 147 students and provided $11,813.16 indirect and indirect monetary academic assistance.

  • Health Program: True Ridges health program promotes wellness through education and prevention, providing the Hispanic community with referrals for both physical and behavioral health concerns. In 2025, we made 55 behavioral health referrals for mental health. . Family Immigration Program: The Family Immigration Program mission is to provide affordable immigration legal representation to residents of Western North Carolina. The program began in 2023 due to the need for low-bono immigration representation in our area. In 2025, we had 112 consults, 75 referrals, and 200 interpretation hours, and 50 hours of document translation. . Our clients are 66.67% North America, 17.59% South America, 14.81% Central America and the Caribbean, 1.85% Europe, 1.85% Middle East, and 0.93% from Asia.

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Melisa S Escobar

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $61,074
    From this org
    $61,074
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    38

  • Dee Redwine

    Board Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Sissi Carroll

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Claudia Gutierrez

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Austin Watson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Erica Van Autreve

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Veronica Gage

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $675,198
    Expenses
    $493,779
    Contributions
    $596,274
    Grants paid
    $46,963
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $655,440
    Expenses
    $418,948
    Contributions
    $594,653
    Grants paid
    $49,125
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $347,772
    Expenses
    $390,536
    Contributions
    $320,611
    Grants paid
    $28,182
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $527,052
    Expenses
    $559,568
    Contributions
    $522,870
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $408,601
    Expenses
    $339,394
    Assets (EOY)
    $284,105

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $416,104
    Expenses
    $310,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $207,213

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $11,606
    Expenses
    $7,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,895

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.