California · Nonprofit
We Encourage Inc
We Encourage Inc (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,509 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($58,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $264k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $167k
- Net assets
- $9k
What We Encourage Inc does
Mission
The purpose of We Encourage, Inc. is to provide assistance that allows a recipient to establish a foothold in their development and to make progress away from dependence to independence, from struggling to self-sustainability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Additional program services:1)Providing support to several individuals $12,500.2) Provide support to current missionaries $11,900.3) Provide support to retired missionaries $3,000.4) Provide support for pastor rent $ 6,500.5) Pasadena Covenant Church for Cross Cultural/Thanksgiving Offering $ 2,5006) Provide monthly assistance to Nelson & Esther Kiamu $7,250.7) Universite Protestante De l'Ubangi in providing educational support $3,000.8) Young Life Greater Pasadena $2,1609) Provide support & green card applications to Nigerians/Africans in USA $19,560.
$68,370 spent28% of program spendingDonations to Rescue the Suffering in Sierra Leone to provide support for school building and food distribution.
$48,000 spent20% of program spendingDonations to Christ Missionary Outreach: 1)In support of the missionary work of Bitrus and Monica Audu as they minister to people living in rural northern Nigeria. They provide education and establish churches in this area.2)In support of Abba Bello Misal in providing educational support. 3)In support of Bello Misal in providing educational support for students. 4)In support of land acquisitions to be utilized by Christ Missionary Outreach.5)In support of a Christ Missionary Outreach solar project6)In support of providing Covid-19 relief to the community7)In support of general ministry (religious/educational) to communities in rural NE Nigeria.
$46,365 spent19% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Donations to ECWA Theological Seminary in support of the building of a women's Dormatory OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Providing support and tuition to several students at Pasadena City College and Fuller Seminary OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Additional program services:1)Providing support to several individuals $12,500.2) Provide support to current missionaries $11,900.3) Provide support to retired missionaries $3,000.4) Provide support for pastor rent $ 6,500.5) Pasadena Covenant Church for Cross Cultural/Thanksgiving Offering $ 2,5006) Provide monthly assistance to Nelson & Esther Kiamu $7,250.7) Universite Protestante De l'Ubangi in providing educational support $3,000.8) Young Life Greater Pasadena $2,1609) Provide support & green card applications to Nigerians/Africans in USA $19,560. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: Donations to Bitrus and Sanatu Sarma:1) In support of the Fistula Ministry. 2) To provide relief and support to Warkan Village and victims of terrorism.3) To provide support towards the reconstruction of roofs in the Gora Gan village.
$81,953 spent33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $244,688.
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 2020 to 2021, from $51k to $16k (−69%).
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.
100% of We Encourage Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $650 → $8k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 Encourage Inc’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 Encourage Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 Encourage Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 97% · 2022 99% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.
“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
96% of We Encourage Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Encourage Inc has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like We Encourage Inc
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for We Encourage Inc: 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 Encourage Inc?
- We Encourage Inc (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,509 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($58,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does We Encourage Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $166,509 in grants to We Encourage Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of We Encourage Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like We Encourage Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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