Florida · Nonprofit
THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC
THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC (Florida) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $574,698 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF PASCO COUNTY INC ($118,860). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $575k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What The Volunteer Way Inc does
Mission
The volunteer way is a 501c3 non-profit faith based charitale organization with the mission to assist all people caught in poverty and to make sure no one goes hungry. We are here to assist those who need it to become a productive citizen in our society
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023 the volunteer way distributed over 5 million pounds of food at no cost to aur partnering food pantries and consumers. The total families served was over 22,000 each month. We also distributed usda commodities to 30 non-profit charities throughout all of pasco and hernando counties. Our soup kitchen server over 7,000 meals each month and our mobile food pantry assisted an average of 800 families that are located in isolated food desert areas in pasco county. Our brown bag program has how grown to over 210 low-income homebound elderly that get a delivery box of groceries and personal items monthly. We are an access site for the department of children and families. All of our services are free of any fees to our consumers and pertnering non-profits.
$5,203,630 spent$5,238,131 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,203,630.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $2.4M (+12%).
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: 2019 52% · 2020 87% · 2021 66% · 2022 67% · 2023 64% · 2024 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $45k → $68k.
3 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 VOLUNTEER WAY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 27 funders by total. 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 VOLUNTEER WAY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 VOLUNTEER WAY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 50% · 2019 61% · 2020 21% · 2021 43% · 2022 37% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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
13% of THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
58% of THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k 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.
Against its field
THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $50
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.
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 THE VOLUNTEER 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 VOLUNTEER WAY INC?
- THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC (Florida) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $574,698 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF PASCO COUNTY INC ($118,860). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $574,698 in grants to THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF PASCO COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $118,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE VOLUNTEER WAY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 27 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