Montana · Nonprofit
The Way Outside
The Way Outside (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,919 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT ($15,919). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $23k
What The Way Outside does
Mission
Provide free firewood to people in need
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
None
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of The Way Outside’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.
Where its funders are
The Way Outside draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Outside runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The Way Outside
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 Way Outside: 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 Outside?
- The Way Outside (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,919 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT ($15,919). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Way Outside have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,919 in grants to The Way Outside.
- Who is the largest funder of The Way Outside?
- ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT is the largest funder on record, with $15,919 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Way Outside find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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