Ohio · Nonprofit
MAKE WAY MINISTRIES
MAKE WAY MINISTRIES (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being RATHMOURNE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $147k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Make Way Ministries does
Mission
Make Way Ministries exists to empower the Body of Christ to awaken through revival, mature through discipleship and arise to evangelism as we make way for our soon-coming King, Jesus Christ. We accomplish this through our national and international speaking ministry, our publishing ministry, our online platforms, our local outreach, as well as through evangelistic training for churches, individuals and future ministers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our speaking ministry was active in four states (OH, KY, MI, FL) and we conducted three international trips (Canada, Nicaragua, Netherlands). We ministered in over 79 services and events, including churches, youth groups, recovery programs, prisons and outdoor meetings.
$47,761 spent44% of program spendingThis year, our organization began preparations to establish our ministry in the nation of Brazil with the intention of pioneering an evangelism training center to train and send out evangelists and missionaries. We will be working on the ground in Brasilia, Brazil in early 2026.
$15,310 spent14% of program spendingOur publishing ministry continues to offer biblically based books and study guides to churches, ministries and individuals. This year, we donated over 200 copies of The Crucified Lifestyle (Spanish) to pastors in Nicaragua. We published a men's book called Delete and donated over 60 copies to pastors in America to use for counseling.
$11,712 spent11% of program spendingWe have partnered with several ministries that work to further our mission of discipleship, evangelism and training. These include missionaries and missions projects through the Jim Palmers Senders Fund (Ohio Ministry Network), missionary Tim Bentley in Macedonia (AGWM), Rob Wehrley in Nicaragua (Bold Ministries), The Covering Women's Discipleship Program (Circleville, OH), Pure Life Ministries Brazil Men's Discipleship Program (Brasilia, Brazil) and Plus Nothing Ministries (Fort Collins, CO). Funds have been given as well as resources to support and strengthen these ministries.
$18,924 spent18% of program spendingOur online ministries remain active on several social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram). Our content is reaching many online and our videos are being used in Christian discipleship and rehabilitation programs. Our main website offers video teachings, blogs and ministry updates for free.
$5,062 spent5% of program spendingOur local ministry has ministered to hundreds on the streets of downtown Dayton by handing out free snacks and Bible literature, sharing the Gospel and praying for needs. We have also partnered with multiple churches and ministries in Ohio to provide customized materials and tools to aid in evangelism training in their local contexts.
$8,611 spent8% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $107,380.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $26k to $43k (+63%).
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.
100% of MAKE WAY MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MAKE WAY MINISTRIES’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.
Where its funders are
MAKE WAY MINISTRIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
MAKE WAY MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAKE WAY MINISTRIES
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 MAKE WAY MINISTRIES: 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 MAKE WAY MINISTRIES?
- MAKE WAY MINISTRIES (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being RATHMOURNE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE WAY MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to MAKE WAY MINISTRIES.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE WAY MINISTRIES?
- RATHMOURNE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE WAY MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing