Cultural Diversity Resources
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411896836
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fargo, ND, USA
- Phone
- (701) 318-0555
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $192,794
- Expenses
- $164,272
- Assets
- $107,079
- Liabilities
- $5,343
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- YOKE SIM GUNARATNE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- YOKE SIM GUNARATNE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $17,940 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To build communities that value diversity and inclusion through serving as the intercultural bridge that strengthens bonds, educates, and empowers ethnically diverse communities. Kristen is CDR's Fund Development Coordinator, and serves as an AmeriCorps VISTA Member. Her role focuses on managing diversified funding strategies, and ensuring donor, sponsor and partner engagement for long term support. She actively pursues grant opportunities that align with CDR's mission. Kristen earned a B.S in Dietetics from North Dakota State University, and is a registered Dietitian with a Certificate in Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management. Her achievements include being named North Dakota's Outstanding Young Dietitian in 2011. Kristen previously served as a Nutrition Education Agent for NDSU Extension Services, Community Dietitian at Sanford Health in Fargo, and Project Coo.
What it reported doing in 2024
Multi-ethnic leadership & community development - provided organizational capacity-builidng & nonprofit training sessions to multicultural alliance (ma) members for three (3) grassroots nonprofits serving ethnically diverse population. Collaboration on several programs/service: (1) provided financial support and supervision for two part-time americorps members, from 'strengthen nd' nonprofit, to provide direct services to low-income bipoc communities, (2)recruited 10 participants who attended five training sessions on community engagement and volunteerism, (3) served as fiscal agent for baraza la afrika nonprofit on two projects funded by nd refugee department, and indigenous legacy on two projects (3) collaborated with moorhead public schools to recruit two full-time promise fellows to assist students at risk, (4) organized assets-mapping and presentations to inform and educate community partners on current community programs and resources to better serve low-income population.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.8%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $134K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $18K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.