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WASHINGTON COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND

EIN 91-1259403 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2023
$912,099
Expenses 2023
$914,722

Program services were 83.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 18104

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

To support community organizations that work to achieve racial, social and economic justice.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WCAN ERF supports community organizations that work to achieve racial, social and economic justice.

  • PUBLIC OUTREACH & EDUCATION.WaCANERF, partially through grants to related organization WCAN, exceeded our yearly goals by having 26,029 conversations through the door-to-door canvass about our housing, mass liberation & health care work. WaCANERF conducted community outreach and education focused on the office of the insurance commissioner, and engaged 549 new community members with a call to action writing a letter or email to the insurance commissioner demanding the large premium increases for Kaiser and Premera be denied and that he put patients before insurance profits. To bring more visibility to this important state office, WaCAN ERF Community Organizers spoke with people at the doors about the impact upwards of 15% premium increases would have on small businesses and working families. From this outreach effort, 74 community members shared their healthcare stories with other community members and policymakers. 58 community members educated their elected officials and urged them to create a Medicaid equivalent for immigrants in Washington State. Lastly, WaCANERF engaged 2 community leaders to share their stories in video format to spread awareness about the detrimental nature of our current healthcare system. Across all of our issues, 2,446 community members took action and/or participated in WaCANERF events in 2023 thanks to our organizing efforts.

    Expenses $500,783 · Grants $472,500 · Revenue $40,200

  • LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.WaCANERF, partially through grants to related organization WCAN, had 1-1 meetings to build relationships with 175 new community members, and developed more than 130 leaders to take deeper action with their leadership. 94 of these new leaders took multiple actions (3+) throughout the year, including attending events, facilitating community member trainings, leading conversations on issues directly impacting them, and bringing community members to outreach events. WaCANERF, building on work done in 2022, had 6 leaders mobilized to attend Universal Healthcare Cost Transparency Board meetings and the Universal Health Care Commission meetings to bring patients' perspectives and experiences to those boards. In addition to last year's 5, Community Organizers developed 4 new leaders to become spokespersons to educate about our healthcare work.

    Expenses $212,908 · Grants $202,500

  • At Pacific County Voices Uniting (PCVU), we believe everyone should have the resources they need to thrive no matter who they are or where they come from. That includes people who are often excluded, such as undocumented immigrants, disabled folks, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and Black, Indigenous, Mexican/Hispanic/Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander and other People of Color. Far too many people in Pacific County struggle to access food, housing, healthcare and other vital resources. There are services available to help, but it can be hard for people to utilize them when busy work schedules, lack of transportation, language barriers and other obstacles get in the way. That's why PCVU had two bilingual Community Outreach Navigators to help anyone in Pacific County find and access available resources. In 2023, the Community Outreach Navigators served 1,553 families through 9 food distributions across Pacific County.

    Expenses $48,902

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jack Johnson

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Deana Knutsen

    Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Gina Owens

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joselito Lopez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Le Nguyen

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $100,060
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $99,100
    Other
    $960
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

  • Serena Evans-Satoran

    Finance Director

    Total calculated
    $77,585
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $69,485
    Other
    $8,100
    Hours/week
    12 + 28 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $912,099
    Expenses
    $914,722
    Contributions
    $854,020
    Grants paid
    $675,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,439,829
    Expenses
    $622,058
    Contributions
    $1,361,168
    Grants paid
    $275,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,613,400
    Expenses
    $550,890
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,992,112

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,120,404
    Expenses
    $847,496
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,958,671

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.