US First Initiatives
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923826951
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Troutdale, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5038689243
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,584
- Expenses
- $85,231
- Assets
- $1,539
- Liabilities
- $21,186
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Deandre Kenyanjui (Director)
- Syreeta Spencer (Director)
- Kenneth Hughes (Chairman)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Us First Initiatives (UFI) is a peer-run organization that prioritizes Black/African American communities, other communities of color and people living with mental health and addictions challenges (youth and adults).
What it reported doing in 2023
Our focus is to provide technical assistance to grassroots and culturally specific organizations to help develop, sustain and grow their infrastructure. UFI will provide workforce development (including training and internship opportunities), culturally specific peer support, peer supervision and consulting.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 13.77; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.