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THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY

THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,685 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($230,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$61k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$304k
Net assets
$46k
3/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What The Way Biblical Counseling Ministry does

Mission

The organization provides biblically-based Christian counseling services to individuals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide biblical counseling services.

    $85,405 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,405.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($100k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($115k)2020 Revenue 86 ($86k) Expenses 98 ($60k) Net assets 122 ($140k)2021 Revenue 47 ($47k) Expenses 129 ($79k) Net assets 94 ($108k)2022 Revenue 92 ($92k) Expenses 155 ($95k) Net assets 91 ($105k)2023 Revenue 84 ($84k) Expenses 144 ($88k) Net assets 87 ($100k)2024 Revenue 54 ($53k) Expenses 136 ($84k) Net assets 61 ($70k)2025 Revenue 62 ($61k) Expenses 139 ($85k) Net assets 40 ($46k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (62)Expenses (139)Net assets (40)Peer revenue range

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 $140k to $108k (−23%).

$115k
$140k
$108k
$105k
$100k
$70k
$46k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

12% of THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’19
$26k
’20
−$32k
’21
−$3k
’22
−$5k
’23
−$30k
’24
−$24k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $49k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY’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 BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY.

76%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 61% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $302k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY's revenue fell 38% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−39% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY?
THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,685 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($230,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $303,685 in grants to THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY?
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE WAY BIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4 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