Washington · Nonprofit
WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION
WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,760 to it, the largest being RENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FNDN ($255,202). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $166k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $720k
- Net assets
- $0
What Way Back Inn Foundation does
Mission
Way Back Inn provides transitional housing, up to 2 years, to homeless families with children, while helping them rebuild their lives, dignity, and self confidence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Way Back Inn's main program is to provide transitional housing for homeless families with children. Ranging in time from 30 days to 2 years, this housing provides security, a home address to assist with education and/or occupation searches, and stability. We also provide assistance for housing rents, utilities and moving expenses to those in danger of losing their homes. In 2024, we provided help to 10 families (33 individuals). Also, 87% of the families that stayed in our houses were able to move out to either permanent market rate housing, longer term transitional housing, or supportive housing. As a result of our assistance, families were enrolled in continuing education and over 70% of the households we served were under 30% of the area median income. Based on the increase of homelessness in the Seattle area, Way Back Inn's services are more in demand than ever before.
$122,497 spent$11,088 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,497.
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 2023 to 2024, from $487k to $0 (−100%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 10% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $53k → $75k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION’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
WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 57% · 2019 100% · 2020 28% · 2021 33% · 2022 36% · 2023 50% — 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
42% of WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
58% of WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION'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 $301k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $418k 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.
Organizations like WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION?
- WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,760 to it, the largest being RENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FNDN ($255,202). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $719,760 in grants to WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION?
- RENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FNDN is the largest funder on record, with $255,202 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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