Servingunderserved Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Community outreach: our community engagement activities are in person weekly "questions for a doctor" meetings to answer any questions the parents of students have for a doctor and to go over important topics such as depression, wellness, parenting, nutrition, and cancer relevant to community members. These meetings are held with the parent volunteers at the parent center at wilson high school, homeboy industries, homeboy art academy, and the montebello location of a new way of life. We are also meeting with students at wilson high school and are working to restart, after covid and organizational changes, our peer health educator program where we will meet with students once a month at lunch and once a month after school to work on projects with them and encourage and advise them on how to enter the healthcare field as a career. We have also restarted our efforts to deliver important educational sessions for classrooms on talks such as diabetes, asthma, sexual education, vaping, and nitrous oxide use. Recruitment of community focused physicians for public service: we are working with a local public medical center to include community outreach members from all sites in the interview process for new doctors in a core training program at the medical center. Now each of the approximately one hundred annual applicants to that residency program has an interview with a community member in addition to the usual interviews with medical center personnel. This effort has been positively received by both interviewers and applicants, and has been credited as one of the reasons for our successful recruitment of more than half of our top applicants. According to the applicants, ours is one of only two programs in the country who involve community members in our selection process and the only one who ensures a one-on-one interview with a community member for each applicant. They also report that this effort concretely demonstrates the residency program's commitment to the underserved patient population. The community members have also been integrated into the selection committee. This allows the program to teach the doctors more about the community and more effectively interfacing with them, while serving the community. The community engagement efforts allow the residency program to recruit better doctors to serve our community by attracting the applicants who are most aligned with the mission of serving the underserved. Support for underserved with neurological issues: we have also contributed by supporting the efforts of the pediatric neurologist at the local public hospital, helping to retain a very important service for our underserved patients with neurologic issues such as epilepsy and cerebral palsy. Thus far our support has consisted of administering donated funds that support the educational and clinical needs of the pediatric neurologist and clinic.support for underserved with genetic conditions: currently we are helping to support research for the benefit of individuals with phenylketonuria (pku). Phenylketonuria (pku) is one of the most common genetic metabolic disorders. Newborn screening for pku was introduced in 1966 to enable early diagnosis and intervention. Without treatment, individuals with pku develop severe intellectual disability. However, early intervention, such as the introduction of a special formula from birth to restrict phenylalanine intake and maintain blood phenylalanine concentrations within a safe range, effectively prevents intellectual disability. Despite the availability of dietary management, adhering to a phenylalanine-restricted diet is challenging for many individuals with pku. As a result, many patients struggle to maintain their blood phenylalanine levels within the recommended range. This often leads to the development of neuropsychiatric symptoms, including mood disorders, which can interfere with daily activities, employment, and overall quality of life, contributing to social and economic dispari

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 33.8%; rating input score 34

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -265.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.71; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings