CyberUp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475483718
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3148961584
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,093,869
- Expenses
- $1,241,604
- Assets
- $815,746
- Liabilities
- $172,208
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrew Wilder (President)
- Roftiel Constantine (Vice President)
- Tony Bryan (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Tony Bryan (Executive Director): $145,316 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To elevate the cybersecurity workforce by igniting curiosity, developing talent, and transforming career pathways.
What it reported doing in 2025
LevelUp: We develop candidates from overlooked backgrounds with the motivation and grit to become cyber professionals. LevelUp Training courses are designed for adults to be able to maintain their current job and busy lifestyles while pursuing a career in cybersecurity. Our Instructor-Led training class is a 6-month course that meets 1 night per week and is 100% virtual. The class focuses on CompTIA Security+ curriculum, hands-on-labs, and professional development. Candidates earn their Security+ certification at the end of the class. In 2025, 129 candidates enrolled in LevelUp Training with a total of 16,250 training hours completed. continued on schedule OLevelUp Apprenticeship: We transform how employers attract, upskill, and retain their workforce through high-quality apprenticeships. Related Training Instruction: Each apprentice receives an additional certification during their 12-month program. Certifications are customizable based on employer's needs and aligned with the future role of each apprentice. Mentorship: Apprentices have monthly check-ins with our Apprenticeship Coordinator, participate in monthly mentor meetups, and other professional development opportunities. One-to-one mentorship is available upon request. Apprenticeship Standards Management: CyberUp tracks, manages, and works directly with the DOL to ensure the successful completion of the registered apprenticeship program for every employer partner. There were 32 people empowered to pursue a non-traditional cybersecurity pathway.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $967K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.