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UNDERSCORE MEDIA COLLABORATION

EIN 83-3178910 PORTLAND, OR

Revenue 2024
$917,472
Expenses 2024
$739,324

Program services were 84.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
1000
Street
610 SW ALDER ST STE 1111

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 · 2024

Mission

Underscore produces indigenous-centered journalism that illuminates the intersections of sovereignty and justice and portrays the rich diversity of Native communities in the Pacific Northwest.

  • Our journalism from 2024 won 19 Indigenous Media Awards, the most in the U.S., and additional honors from institutions such as the Society of Professional Journalists.

    Expenses $305,643

  • Our work was widely republished (to date, more than 70 outlets and sites have featured our work nationwide), and we also built out co-reporting partnerships with key partners, such as a story that was featured on the cover of High Country News magazine and a story that appeared on the Sunday front page of The Seattle Times, which were both reported and published in collaboration with those respective outlets.

    Expenses $305,643

  • We hosted our third Indigenous Journalism Fellow for an immersive 10-week internship that included fully paid housing and scholarship funding. The fellows work produced during their internship won three national journalism awards.

    Expenses $10,678

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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

  • Mago Torres

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Erin Dysart

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Joseph Bull

    Board Member

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $917,472
    Expenses
    $739,324
    Contributions
    $917,051
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $696,981
    Expenses
    $630,224
    Contributions
    $696,703
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $421,958
    Expenses
    $458,778
    Contributions
    $421,733
    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
    $382,298
    Expenses
    $329,667
    Assets (EOY)
    $202,965

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.