Ohio · Nonprofit
WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE
WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,800 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Wam House Dba the Baton Exchange does
Mission
We use resources and groups of peers and mentors to equip christian 20- somethings to be on-mission in their call to integrate faith, work and leadership for a life of redemptive impact in career and culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mentoring program enrollment experienced significant growth, serving 78 mentees and nearly 200 mentors across 25 states, spanning from hawaii to virginia and minnesota to texas. Participants represented a diverse pipeline of college students, emerging professionals, and early-career leaders, reflecting the programs expanding national reach and relevance.
$33,037 spent68% of program spendingMentor training was strengthened through facilitated mentor roundtables led by the executive director and experienced mentors. In a key leadership transition, facilitation responsibilities were successfully delegated to a volunteer mentor, who launched a structured monthly mentor training schedule in early 2026, enhancing sustainability and peer-led capacity building.
$10,199 spent21% of program spendingSuccessfully piloted a joint virtual mentoring collaboration with a partner nonprofit, leveraging our established mentor pool, systems, and matching processes to support 25 additional mentees. The partnership exceeded expectations, resulting in a renewed collaborative agreement for 2026. This pilot validated a scalable mentoring collaborative model that will be intentionally expanded in 2026.
$5,456 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,692.
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 2017 to 2018, from $25k to $4k (−83%).
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.
93% of WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Cheryl Riffe
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $5k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE’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
WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
100% 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 WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k 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.
Against its field
WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
78%
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 WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE: 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 WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE?
- WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,800 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,800 in grants to WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAM HOUSE DBA THE BATON EXCHANGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2 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