We Can Helporg
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922874604
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Martinez, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9252862970
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,567
- Expenses
- $126,109
- Assets
- $242,138
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cynthia Thomas (President)
People named in this filing
- Denese Gordon (CFO)
- Alice Crysdale (Secretary)
- Cynthia Thomas (President)
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
The organization facilitates housing assistance, childcare, rehabilitation, casemanagement services, and total recovery through collaborative partnerships and acontinuum of care to achieve a healthy community for those that are vulnerable andat risk of homelessness, mental health issues, and trauma.
What it reported doing in 2025
We Can Help supported 3 programs in 2025: Back to School Backpacks, Emergency Run Kits, College Scholarship.
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
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,093.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.