Ohio · Nonprofit
We Think 4 a Change
We Think 4 a Change (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,500 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ($138,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $155k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $321k
- Net assets
- $66k
What We Think 4 a Change does
Mission
The mission of We Think 4 A Change is to join and empower individuals and urban communities impacted by HIV/AIDS by reducing stigma through education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Get, Stay, Thrive in Care (Star) This program offers continuous engagement with our target population - People Living with HIV/AIDS in greater Cleveland via our Peer Navigators and Community Health Workers for services overcoming barriers to care including linkage to care, emergency assistance getting to appointments, gaining access to cell phones to facilitate telehealth, and gaining access to laptops to facilitate education and self-development just to name a few.
$57,976 spent$83,888 earned by the program56% of program spendingOutreach: At community events, high schools and senior living communities, WT4AC Peer Navigators and Community Health Workers provide HIV/STD education and workshops, testing & referrals where individuals at-risk for contracting HIV and other STDs are provided opportunities to receive learn more about HIV and STDs and get an HIV or Hepatitis C test to learn of their status. Home test kits are provided and other tests are administered by our HIV Testing partners AIDS Taskforce, Care Alliance, Signature Health and Central Wellness.
$25,840 spent$40,391 earned by the program25% of program spendingWe Think 4 a Change Leadership & Empowerment: Guided by the values of courage, meaningful work, integrity and spiritual principles, our planning group of fellows living with HIV embodies the attributes of compassion, wisdom and boldness to share their story and encourage self-empowerment for others. These same attendees promote their significance within the HIV/AIDS sector through individual and collective contributions of knowledge and learning. They lead with authority, openness, self-respect, and loyalty to their fellows. All attendees involved in the project walk in faith, demonstrating friendship, honesty, and living happily embraced though acts of love. This initiative offers educational opportunities and advocacy meetings for attendees across the state of Ohio via in-person retreats, virtual planning meetings and virtual webinars.
$10,920 spent$20,195 earned by the program11% of program spendingFundraising Expense
$8,035 spent$10,874 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $102,771.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $44k to $10k (−77%).
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 Think 4 a Change’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Michelle Jackson Rollins
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $53k → $136k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Think 4 a Change’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 Think 4 a Change leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Think 4 a Change.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 90% · 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 68% — 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
We Think 4 a Change draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k 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.
Against its field
We Think 4 a Change has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like We Think 4 a Change
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Think 4 a Change: 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 Think 4 a Change?
- We Think 4 a Change (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,500 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ($138,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does We Think 4 a Change have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $320,500 in grants to We Think 4 a Change, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of We Think 4 a Change?
- THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS is the largest funder on record, with $138,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like We Think 4 a Change find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2020–2025), 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