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His Way Inc

To serve the needs of children under the age of 18 with monetary contributions to 501(c)(3) organizations.

$503k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$91k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$2.7MHealth$1.2MCrime & Legal$474kYouth Development$318kReligion$281kInternational$226kHousing & Shelter$156kFood & Nutrition$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $478,851 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $503,447 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,596 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $248k
$34,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER OF TUPELO$90,500
CASA OF HANCOCK CO$56,039
KIDS HUB CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$51,000
MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL$50,000
CHERISHED HEARTS$48,356
EASTERSEALS MS CAC$38,068
HIS HEART INC$34,000
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES$32,904
SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC$26,000
COMMUNITY OF CHRISTIANS$20,219
SALLY KATE WINTERS FAMILY SERVICE$14,782
HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY$6,110
LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE$5,850
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$5,023
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $976k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK: $68k → 16%SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $45k → 26%NATCHEZ CHILDREN'S HOME: $45k → 31%TUTWILER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $15k → 31%COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK: $47k → 16%TUTWILER COMMUNITY EDUCATION C: $15k → 31%COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK: $45k → 16%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF MISSISSIPPI: $60k → 23%COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK: $35k → 16%COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK: $34k → 16%COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK: $33k → 16%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $72k → 11%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $37k → 11%EASTERSEALS MS CAC: $38k → 14%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $26k → 11%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $18k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $13k → 23%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $40k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $33k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $32k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $31k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $31k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $30k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $30k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 28 repeat orgs$580k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
12

Total granted

$5.0M
$494k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+14%

Still filing today

96%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationHousing & ShelterHealthReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HO
    HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $800k · revenue +47%
  • RR
    REGIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $465k · revenue +79%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $261k · revenue +526%

Funded once

  • OS
    OPERATION SHOESTRING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +72%
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST MINISTRY WITH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +98%
  • PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
2
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.

Crime & Legal
3
Childrens Advocacy Center - Hope House

To provide a child-oriented, multidisciplinary forensice interview enviroment facility and counseling center for victims of abuse and their families.

Civil Rights
4
Southeast Alabama Child Advocacy Center

Established to serve as an advocate of children & to reduce the trauma & anxiety of victims of child abuse by providing coordinated multi- disciplinary & human approach to the investigation & interviewing process.

Human Services
5
Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center Inc

To provide a safe place to report child abuse, reduce the emotional trauma for children and non-offending family members, and extend professional services to protect the intergrity of an investigation.

Crime & Legal
6
Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

Provide services for abused children

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7
Christian Services for Children in Alabama

The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.

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8
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn

To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.

Human Services
9
The Children's Center of Southwest

Provide safe place for various agencies to meet with and interview abused children.

Crime & Legal
10
The Children's Advocacy Center of Hamilton County Inc

The cac provides intervention services for children who are victims of severe abuse and advocacy services to their non offending caregivers. this includes forensic interviews, medical exams, therapy, and prevention education. the cac also…

Human Services
11
Child Advocacy Center of Marshall County Alabama Inc

To provide comprehensive services to victims of child abuse.

Crime & Legal
12
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christians in Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Council On Alcoholism of Northeast Mississippi. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr16%13%5–10yr22%23%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr12%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr16%8%5–10yr22%18%10–20yr14%43%20–35yr10%7%35–55yr12%24%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/42
the rest of the field
17%
669/3,981

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
26/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC — $800,054 · Human ServicesHOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INCCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK INC — $260,739 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK INCSOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC — $226,523 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN …SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $153,505 · Human ServicesSUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INCNATCHEZ CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $152,598 · Human ServicesNATCHEZ CHILDREN'S SERVICESSOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $108,349 · Human ServicesOPERATION SHOESTRING INC — $100,000 · Human Services+6 more — $246,082 · Human Services+6 moreREGIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $465,244 · OtherREGIONAL REHABILITATION CENTE…THE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF NE MS — $310,562 · OtherTHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF…STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $126,200 · OtherSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES IN…SALLY KATE WINTERS FAMILY SERVICES INC — $60,657 · OtherMISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE — $58,490 · OtherBUT GOD MINISTRIES — $226,082 · OtherBUT GOD MINISTRIESSR1 — $50,000 · Other+6 more — $158,117 · Other+6 moreMOUNT OLIVE MINISTRIES INC — $239,300 · Crime & LegalMOUNT OLIVE M…Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi — $205,028 · Crime & LegalCount Appoint…Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center — $84,444 · Crime & LegalHealing Heart…HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC — $84,030 · Crime & LegalHOPE HAVEN OF…MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS — $58,199 · Crime & LegalMS CENTER FOR…MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL — $265,984 · HealthMAGNOLIA S…KIDS HUB — $140,204 · HealthKIDS HUBAUTISM CENTER OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI INC — $115,000 · HealthAUTISM CEN…COMMUNITY OF CHRISTIANS HELPING YOU — $269,475 · EducationHARBOR DAY SCHOOL — $64,202 · EducationCentral MS Down Syndrome Society Inc — $49,400 · EducationCHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC — $141,500 · Housing & ShelterMADISON COUNTIANS ALLIED AGAINST POVERTY — $75,103 · Housing & ShelterWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO — $29,948 · Housing & ShelterHis Heart Inc — $203,000 · ReligionQUIET WATERS MINISTRIES INC — $35,448 · Religion
Human Services$2,047,850Other$1,455,352Crime & Legal$671,001Health$521,188Education$383,077Housing & Shelter$246,551Religion$238,448

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC — $800,054 over 6y, 11% of budgetREGIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $465,244 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetTHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF NE MS — $310,562 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF CHRISTIANS HELPING YOU — $269,475 over 7y, 68% of budgetMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL — $265,984 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK INC — $260,739 over 6y, 24% of budgetMOUNT OLIVE MINISTRIES INC — $239,300 over 2y, 27% of budgetSOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC — $226,523 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBUT GOD MINISTRIES — $226,082 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCount Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi — $205,028 over 5y, 11% of budgetHis Heart Inc — $203,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetSUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $153,505 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetNATCHEZ CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $152,598 over 4y, 12% of budgetCHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC — $141,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetKIDS HUB — $140,204 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $126,200 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAUTISM CENTER OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI INC — $115,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $108,349 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetOPERATION SHOESTRING INC — $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetHealing Hearts Child Advocacy Center — $84,444 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetHOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC — $84,030 over 5y, 11% of budgetMADISON COUNTIANS ALLIED AGAINST POVERTY — $75,103 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetHARBOR DAY SCHOOL — $64,202 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetSALLY KATE WINTERS FAMILY SERVICES INC — $60,657 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE — $58,490 over 3y, 27% of budgetMS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS — $58,199 over 3y, 19% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSR1 — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCentral MS Down Syndrome Society Inc — $49,400 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHERISHED HEARTS INC — $48,356 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI — $40,556 over 2y, 18% of budgetEASTER SEALS MISSISSIPPI — $38,068 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetQUIET WATERS MINISTRIES INC — $35,448 over 1y, 15% of budgetTutwiler Community Education Center — $30,100 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO — $29,948 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOPERATION UPWARD — $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERS OF MISSISSIPPI — $18,023 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILLOWOOD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ergon Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Childrens Advocacy Ce…Butler Snow O'Mara St…National Children's A…Mike and Janie Jarvis…Selby and Richard McR…Pinebelt FoundationFountain Family Found…Hf McCarty Jr Family …St Dominic - Jackson …United Way of Northea…
Ergon Foundation IncMS30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Childrens Advocacy Centers of Mississippi · Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada Foundation · National Children's Alliance Inc · Mike and Janie Jarvis Family Foundation · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Pinebelt Foundation · Fountain Family Foundation · Hf McCarty Jr Family Foundation · St Dominic - Jackson Memorial Hospital · United Way of Northeast Mississippi Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization His Way Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to His Way Inc?

    Find your warmest path to His Way Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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