Oregon · Nonprofit
We Can Do Better
We Can Do Better (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,312 to it, the largest being LANE COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $119k
- Net assets
- $4k
What We Can Do Better does
Mission
Public education and civic engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Presentations at educational meetings, leading keynote and breakout sessions on health, health reform and delivery system transformation; provide consultation to other organizations on messaging and framing. These efforts reached approximately 500 people. We took lead responsibility for convening, facilitating and expanding a collective of allied organizations also doing nonpartisan advocacy around health reform, health equity and fundamental change related to people needing access to care, called the Allies for a Healthier Oregon. We held a four part virtual disability justice speaker series. We began working on a K-12 disability studies curriculum.Education to reframe the focus of heath reform debates, highlighting health, coverage and utilization of health care as distinct yet overlapping constructs. We used email updates, online web-based seminars and in-person forums to discuss and question policy focuses and strategies. We reached around 5,500 people.
$50,897 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,897.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $45k to $384k (+754%).
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: 2020 98% · 2021 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of We Can Do Better’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $20.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of We Can Do Better’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
We Can Do Better leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 We Can Do Better.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
82% of We Can Do Better's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
We Can Do Better's revenue fell 57% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding We Can Do Better receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$1.3M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$600k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$430k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$40k
- OTHER SERVICES$6k
- DUES/MEMBERSHIPS$120
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like We Can Do Better
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 We Can Do Better: 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 We Can Do Better?
- We Can Do Better (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,312 to it, the largest being LANE COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does We Can Do Better have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $119,312 in grants to We Can Do Better, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of We Can Do Better?
- LANE COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like We Can Do Better 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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