The Underdog Family
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851334240
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 2485149896
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,508
- Expenses
- $15,203
- Assets
- $3,289
- Liabilities
- $1,068
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chinthaka Weerappuli (President)
- Derrick Knudsen (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Chinthaka Weerappuli (President)
- Derrick Knudsen (Vice President)
- Darian Nocera (Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cultivating a stronger community thru eduction, support, and networking services designed for businesses and individuals alike.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community Outreach and Integration
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 46.4%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -176%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 46.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.