West Virginia · Nonprofit
THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC
THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,300 to it, the largest being THE OWSLEY BROWN III PHILANTHROPIC FOUND ($76,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $121k
- Net assets
- $66k
What The Middle Way Initiative Inc does
Mission
The Middle Way Initiative Inc is a non-profit buddhist organization that supports and encourages spirited conversation around the buddha's most essential teachings. The organization is open to all people and strictly forbids discrimination based on race, gender and/or gender identity or expression, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, ethnicity, disability, veteran or military status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, or citizenship status.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization (aka: mwi) educates through meditation retreats, dialogue, and creative expression. Mwi is actively committed to bringing the middle way tradition into the world in a broader way. In 2024, mwi produced and distributed podcasts, produced webinars to worldwide audiences, produced teaching and meditation retreats, and collaborated with other buddhist organizations for various presentations.
$40,794 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,794.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $50k to $73k (+46%).
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.
61% of THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $16k → $25k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE 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 MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
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 MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 92% · 2021 40% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC has grown faster than half of the 10,142 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE 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 West Virginia
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE 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 MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC?
- THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,300 to it, the largest being THE OWSLEY BROWN III PHILANTHROPIC FOUND ($76,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $121,300 in grants to THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC?
- THE OWSLEY BROWN III PHILANTHROPIC FOUND is the largest funder on record, with $76,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MIDDLE WAY INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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