California · Nonprofit
The Way Out Ministries Inc
The Way Out Ministries Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,270 to it, the largest being THE CEC FOUNDATION ($149,002). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $479k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $165k
- Net assets
- $742k
What The Way Out Ministries Inc does
Mission
To provide Christian based youth activities, benevolence programs and middle school education to the local community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY, SUCH AS BIBLE STORIES AND STUDIES, CAMPING, CRAFTS AND RECREATION, FIELD TRIPS, HOLIDAY PRESENTATIONS, OUTREACH, SPORTS ET CETERA.2025 AccomplishmentsThe Way Out Ministries remains steadfast in bringing hope, help, and love to the inner city of Hawaiian Gardens. Our Resource Center continues to serve families and individuals in need each day, providing food, clothing, counseling, shelter, and connections to vital social services. Over the past year, we have sucessfully helped place many individuals experiencing homelessness into permanent housing and rehabilitation homes. Our ministry remains active with weekly worship services, programs for children, youth and adults, bi-monthly community outreaches, and impactful summer camps.We are excited to share that we have expanded our outreach to Texas with the addition of a new Resource Center in Fort Worth. This expansion allows us to serve families and individuals in Texas just as we have faithfully done in California for over four decades.As we step into 2026, we eagerly anticipate all that God will do as we continue transforming lives and strengthening communities.
$405,147 spent100% of program spendingBenevolence programs to people in the community in need of assistance, with clothing, food, shelter, transportation, and other specific items
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $405,147.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $963k to $905k (−6%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $17k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Out Ministries 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 Out Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 95% · 2019 93% · 2020 83% · 2021 90% · 2022 89% · 2023 87% — 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
100% of The Way Out Ministries Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $518 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.
Organizations like The Way Out Ministries 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% 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 Way Out Ministries 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 Out Ministries Inc?
- The Way Out Ministries Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,270 to it, the largest being THE CEC FOUNDATION ($149,002). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Way Out Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $165,270 in grants to The Way Out Ministries Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Way Out Ministries Inc?
- THE CEC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $149,002 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Way Out Ministries Inc 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 2017–2025), 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