Alabama · Nonprofit
ONE WAY MINISTRIES
ONE WAY MINISTRIES (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,450 to it, the largest being HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $4k
What One Way Ministries does
Mission
One Way Ministries exists to reach impoverished, desperate and forgotten people groups with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a variety of venues including community outreach events, food and clothing distribution, construction projects, orphan care, leadership development, evangelism and discipleship, sports camps, and more.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Peru - One Way Ministries partners with Zona Segura to provide support for the orphanage in Cachura as well as the ministry centers in Lima and Cusco
$28,630 spentof which $28,630 as grants46% of program spendingGuatemala - work in HueHue, Xela and Pinos mainly in community outreach.
$28,408 spentof which $28,408 as grants45% of program spendingSlovenia - partnership with Wade and Joan Killingsworth for English camps, community outreach
$4,510 spentof which $4,510 as grants7% of program spendingDonations to like-minded ministries including The Church at Brook Hills, Compassion International - those involved in foster and adoption care
$1,200 spentof which $1,200 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,748.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $8k to $29k (+267%).
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 ONE WAY MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
John E Turner Jr
CEO
Board chair
Jerry Flummer
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $250.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ONE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
ONE WAY MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 ONE WAY MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
ONE WAY MINISTRIES draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
ONE WAY MINISTRIES's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ONE 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ONE 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 ONE WAY MINISTRIES?
- ONE WAY MINISTRIES (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,450 to it, the largest being HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ONE WAY MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $17,450 in grants to ONE WAY MINISTRIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONE WAY MINISTRIES?
- HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONE WAY MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 3 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