Better Housing Together

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852578937
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Eugene, OR, USA
Phone
4077828865
Rating
37
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Support N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$133,021
Expenses
$119,266
Assets
$19,037

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Betsy Joy Schultz (President)

People named in this filing

  • Betsy Joy Schultz (President)
  • Tiffany Telfer Edwards (Secretary)
  • Kaarin Knudson (Executive Dir.)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To work collaborateively to increase the affordability, diversity and supply of housing in Lane County.

What it reported doing in 2025

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.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 5
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 5%; rating input score 5
  • Program expense ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 6

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -68.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -34.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 5% of revenue deployed · 5.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.