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The Other Way Ministries

The other way works to empower neighbors residing in a low-income community in grand rapids, mi through providing assistance with basic needs and referral services, along with a variety of holistic programming to achieve spiritual, relational, and economic growth

$9k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$9,164
Largest grant, FY2020
$9,164
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations The Other Way Ministries funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20201$9k100%
FY20181$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Philanthropy$10kHuman Services$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
West Michigan Christian Foundation$10,00011%
Westside Collaborative$9,1641n/a

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About The Other Way Ministries

How much does The Other Way Ministries give?
The Other Way Ministries reported 1 grants totaling $9,164 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does The Other Way Ministries fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Human Services (48%).
Who are The Other Way Ministries's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: West Michigan Christian Foundation ($10k), Westside Collaborative ($9k).
Does The Other Way Ministries fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Other Way Ministries based?
The Other Way Ministries is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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