We Can Now Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851135163
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Pflugerville, TX, USA
Rating
39
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$174,562
Expenses
$225,220
Assets
$53,272
Liabilities
$200

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Antony Jackson (President)

People named in this filing

  • Antony Jackson (President)
  • Shakendra D Jackson (Secretary)
  • Vero Sandaval (Treasurer)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to motivate encourage and inspire every individual to reach their highest potential and dreams because we can.

What it reported doing in 2024

We Can Now operates a street outreach team that directly engages unhoused individuals in encampments and outdoor settings often underserved by larger systems. We provide immediate needs such as food and medical care along with diversion services connecting individuals to stable housing social services and case management. Impact: Since its establishment in 2023 We Can Now has diverted over 80 individuals from the streets into stable housing. Financials: The program is low-budget yet high-impact; by diverting each individual the organization is estimated to save the city over $25,000 per person in emergency services e.g. ER visits policing public health costs. This totals at least $2 million in savings based on their outreach efforts to date. Objective: The short-term goal is to reduce street homelessness by engaging individuals where they are. The long-term aim is to end homelessness in Austin by scaling up diversion and stabilizing individuals in safe housing leading to broader public cost savings by 2028.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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: 11
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 12%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 9

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -29%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 29.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -56.2% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -74.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 12% of revenue deployed · 9.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 12/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.