Illinois · Nonprofit
THE WAY BACK INN INC
THE WAY BACK INN INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $924,479 to it, the largest being WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION ($400,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $924k
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What The Way Back Inn Inc does
Mission
The mission of the way back inn is to rebuild lives damaged by addiction in a personalized healing environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Men's extended residential house provides a transitional living facility for adult males, recovering from substance use and or gambling use disorder including those that are dually diagnosed.
$594,585 spent$105,315 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe public awareness program consists of a public awareness campaign for the state of illinois around gambling disorder identification, treatment, and stigma. The campaign includes development of outreach material, including radio/tv, sporting venue activation including illinois colleges, website, and social media campaigns. The campaign includes providing outreach material to other substance use prevention and recovery ("supr") providers and addressing minority groups identified by idhs/supr via a prevalence study done by health resources in action in 2020 innovative campaign strategies.
$3,139,872 spent68% of program spendingWomen's extended residential house provides a transitional living facility for adult females, recovering from substance use and or gambling use disorder, including those that are dually diagnosed.
$315,844 spent$43,652 earned by the program7% of program spendingRecovery home provides clinical services to persons recovering from substance use and/or gambling use disorders, including those that are dually diagnosed.
$196,700 spent$203,060 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe private insurance program is a level of care that generally meets for three days per week for three hours each day.
$9,148 spent0% of program spendingThe way back inn, inc. Provides adult outpatient and intensive outpatient services to persons assessed for this level of care. Best practice and research-based models such as the matrix model and cognitive behavior therapy are utilized in the outpatient program.
$332,278 spent7% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,588,427.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.1M to $5.8M (+16%).
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: 2017 57% · 2018 52% · 2019 62% · 2020 66% · 2021 68% · 2022 79% · 2023 92% · 2024 89% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of THE WAY BACK INN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Anita Pindiur
Executive director
Board chair
Raymond F Soucek
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $176k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 WAY BACK INN 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 WAY BACK INN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 92% · 2020 58% · 2021 58% · 2022 90% · 2023 57% — 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
83% of THE WAY BACK INN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
100% of THE WAY BACK INN INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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 WAY BACK INN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE WAY BACK INN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $469k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$469k
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.
Organizations like THE WAY BACK INN 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 WAY BACK INN 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 WAY BACK INN INC?
- THE WAY BACK INN INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $924,479 to it, the largest being WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION ($400,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WAY BACK INN INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $924,479 in grants to THE WAY BACK INN INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WAY BACK INN INC?
- WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WAY BACK INN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 11 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