Indiana · Nonprofit
A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC
A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,259,737 to it, the largest being THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ($4,573,985). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $12M
What A Better Way Services Inc does
Mission
To reduce domestic abuse, sexual assault and suicide in our community through shelter services, crisis intervention and prevention initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A better way services provides emergency shelter, social casework, crisis counseling, support groups, advocacy, outreach, and children's services for victims of domestic violence. Served 1,529 clients.
$5,650,214 spent$2,447,608 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,650,214.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.5M to $11M (+140%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 80% · 2018 79% · 2019 83% · 2020 85% · 2021 63% · 2022 57% · 2023 30% · 2024 46% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Teresa Clemmons
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $139k → $3.3M.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $539k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 69% · 2019 84% · 2020 45% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
67% of A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC?
- A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,259,737 to it, the largest being THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ($4,573,985). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $5,259,737 in grants to A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC?
- THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,573,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A BETTER WAY SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing