Minnesota · Nonprofit
We Resolve
We Resolve (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,271 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND ($195,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $239k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $420k
- Net assets
- $2k
What We Resolve does
Mission
We Resolve stands with you.We resolve to walk with individuals, families, and communities as they empower themselves using the Participatory Defense Model to defend their loved ones against a discriminatory punishment system and to humanize them before the cour
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Community Support and Advocacy. we are not attorneys, a legal clinic or a service agency. We use a nationwide community organizing model called Participatory Defense which has been shown to reduce convictions rates, length of snetences, and isolation for individuals and familes going through court proceedings. We work with individuals and families through peer support to understand the proceedings and become strong advocates, together with defense attorneys, to dig into the understand the evidence against individuals in order to strengthen their defence strategies.
$99,112 spent$100,086 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $99,112.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $107k to $38k (−65%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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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.
Chief executive
Damon Drake
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $125k → $97k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Resolve’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 Resolve leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 Resolve.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 72% — 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
85% of We Resolve's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like We Resolve
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% 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 Resolve: 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 Resolve?
- We Resolve (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,271 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND ($195,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does We Resolve have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $420,271 in grants to We Resolve, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of We Resolve?
- MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like We Resolve find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2022–2025), 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