Oregon · Nonprofit
Better Housing Together
Better Housing Together (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,355 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($159,355). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $262k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Better Housing Together does
Mission
To work collaborateively to increase the affordability, diversity and supply of housing in Lane County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Led local education and outreach efforts in Lane County to further reduce barriers to middle housing. Continued efforts to streamline and reduce barriers to housing affordability in Lane County. Worked with the local design community to create pre-approved ADU plan sets. Continued to educate community leaders and the general public on the need for increasing housing supply.
$6,621 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,621.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $108k to $28k (−74%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Better Housing Together’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $118k → $72k.
From the IRS filings of Better Housing Together’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Better Housing Together leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Better Housing Together.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 87% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
61% of Better Housing Together's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Better Housing Together runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Better Housing Together
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Better Housing Together: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Better Housing Together?
- Better Housing Together (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,355 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($159,355). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Better Housing Together have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $262,355 in grants to Better Housing Together, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Better Housing Together?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $159,355 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Better Housing Together find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing