Georgia · Nonprofit
THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC
THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,824 to it, the largest being THE HART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($110,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $412k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $221k
- Net assets
- $868k
What The Exceptional Way Inc does
Mission
The exceptional way provides a structured environment and programming involving social and recreational opportunities designed to promote healthy living, foster friendship, and improve functional skills for special needs adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The exceptional way provides a structured environment and programming involving social and recreational opportunities designed to promote healthy living, foster friendship, and improve functional skills for special needs adults.
$199,118 spent$124,209 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $199,118.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $290k to $576k (+98%).
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.
65% of THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $60k → $28k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY 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
THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2022 88% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY 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 THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC?
- THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,824 to it, the largest being THE HART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($110,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $220,824 in grants to THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC?
- THE HART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 8 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