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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by UNDERSCORE MEDIA COLLABORATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$696,981
Total expenses
$630,224
Contributions and grants received
$696,703
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$278
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$232,855
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$232,855
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$476,780
Management and general expenses
$72,493
Fundraising expenses
$80,951
Program service expenses (Part III)
$476,780

Program services were 75.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $696,703

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $278 · related or exempt $278

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $376,369 · program services $245,836 · management and general $49,582 · fundraising $80,951

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $36,781 · program services $36,781

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $37,287 · program services $37,287

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $351 · program services $351

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $5,755 · program services $5,755

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $62,505 · program services $62,505

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,996 · program services $2,397 · management and general $599

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $1,896 · program services $1,517 · management and general $379

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $42,576 · program services $34,061 · management and general $8,515

  • 17 · Travel

    total $15,209 · program services $15,209

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $4,284 · program services $4,284

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,653 · program services $1,653

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $16,371 · program services $7,320 · management and general $9,051

  • 24a · Other expenses: Apps and Subscriptions

    total $14,245 · program services $11,396 · management and general $2,849

  • 24b · Other expenses: Business Registration Fees

    total $461 · management and general $461

  • 24c · Other expenses: Telephone and Internet

    total $5,285 · program services $4,228 · management and general $1,057

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $6,200 · program services $6,200

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $155,397 · end of year $223,760

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $11,953

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $2,858

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $10,748 · end of year $9,095

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $50

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $166,095 · end of year $232,855

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Underscore produces collaborative journalism framed by justice to promote civic engagement and a fair-minded society

  • Underscore won 14 journalism awards from the Native American Journalists Association and five Society of Professional Journalists awards in 2023 for work completed in 2022.

    Expenses $461,553

  • Underscore hosted its second Indigenous Journalism Fellow in summer 2023. The fellowship program consists of an immersive 10-week internship at Underscore News. Underscore fully covers the fellows relocation costs and housing while in Portland and furnishes a scholarship upon completion of the internship.

    Expenses $11,535

  • Underscore News hosted its first community listening session on June 22, 2023. The session provided a forum for direct interaction between our staff and Indigenous community leaders and members in Portland. The sessions goal is to better understand the communitys information needs, perspectives and experiences with news, while gathering ideas for stories and coverage priorities, in an effort to guide a more community-led reporting approach.

    Expenses $3,692

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Erin Dysart

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Stacey McQuade-Eger

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Lee Francis IV

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Mago Torres

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Marcella Miller

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Stone Hudson

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Casey Pearlman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
15 July 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202441979349302319

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