We Can Do Better
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272132905
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Eugene, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5036090304
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,541
- Expenses
- $67,863
- Assets
- $4,403
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Amy Fellows (Executive Dir.)
- Kimmy Schenter (Chairman)
- Laura Raymond (Chairman)
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
Public education and civic engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
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.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -34.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 74%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.