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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by UNDERSCORE MEDIA COLLABORATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$421,958
Total expenses
$458,778
Contributions and grants received
$421,733
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$225
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$166,145
Total liabilities, end of year
$50
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$166,095
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$429,651
Management and general expenses
$20,539
Fundraising expenses
$8,588
Program service expenses (Part III)
$429,651

Program services were 93.7% 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

    $421,733

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $225 · related or exempt $225

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $211,932 · program services $190,739 · management and general $14,835 · fundraising $6,358

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $18,974 · program services $18,974

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $19,217 · program services $17,296 · management and general $1,345 · fundraising $576

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $20,748 · program services $18,674 · management and general $1,452 · fundraising $622

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $4,804 · program services $4,522 · management and general $282

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $124,272 · program services $124,272

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,679 · program services $1,679

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $5,097 · program services $4,587 · management and general $357 · fundraising $153

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $14,808 · program services $14,808

  • 17 · Travel

    total $5,068 · program services $5,068

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $109 · program services $109

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,016 · program services $1,016

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $8,753 · program services $7,877 · management and general $613 · fundraising $263

  • 24a · Other expenses: Apps and Subscriptions

    total $7,517 · program services $6,765 · management and general $526 · fundraising $226

  • 24b · Other expenses: Office Expense Reimbursement

    total $10,785 · program services $9,706 · management and general $755 · fundraising $324

  • 24c · Other expenses: Business Registration Fees

    total $220 · management and general $220

  • 24d · Other expenses: Telephone and Internet

    total $2,199 · program services $1,979 · management and general $154 · fundraising $66

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $1,580 · program services $1,580

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $201,260 · end of year $155,397

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

    $11,953

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

    $1,205

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,705 · end of year $10,748

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $50 · end of year $50

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $202,915 · end of year $166,095

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

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

  • Underscore won five national journalism awards from the Native American Journalists Association in 2022 for work completed in 2021 while also winning five awards from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2023 for work completed in 2022.

    Expenses $400,533

  • Underscore was selected for the Google News Initiatives inaugural cohort for its Data-Driven Reporting Project (DDRP), in partnership with Northwestern University. As part of our yearlong DDRP program, we launched and published an award-winning,four-part reporting series called Sovereign Justice, illuminating the historical context oftribal law in the Pacific Northwest, examining cases where tribes and tribal members have used federal courts to expand their rights under federal law, and exploring the role of tribal courts in exercising the inherent rights of sovereign Indigenous nations.

    Expenses $14,757

  • Underscore launched a pilot program called the Underscore Indigenous Journalism Fellowship, designed to help equip and encourage the next generation of Indigenous journalists while contributing to broader efforts to improve representation in media. We hosted and trained an Indigenous collegiate journalism student from the University ofMontana for an immersive 10-week internship, while also fully paying for the students transportation costs and housing while in Portland, plus a scholarship upon completion. The program is in its second year this summer.? Note on number of people served: Our work reaches tens of thousands of people both through our own website/dissemination platforms and through republication by a wide range of news outlets across the region and country.

    Expenses $14,361

As filed on the 2022 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
2022
Filed
31 July 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202312689349301651

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