New Hampshire · Nonprofit
WAY STATION
WAY STATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,827 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($111,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $407k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $184k
- Net assets
- $246k
What Way Station does
Mission
Provide supportive services to homeless and housing insecure individuals in the Mount Washington Valley Area. We accomplish this with our strategic plan in mind focusing on the acronym HOME. H is housing. We have been awarded and are awaiting governor approval of a grant to renovate the structure we operate from to offer congregate living space. O is operations, our current services to clients. P was changed to M which represents mobile ops facilitated by a van purchased in Dec 2025 allowing us to go into the community to reach clients unable to come to us. The previous "P" represented poverty mitigation facilitated by a program which proved impractical in our rural area. E for Economic Stabilization allows us to provide one time support to cover relatively small items such as the first months rent for a long awaited apartment, or a car battery to permit the client to get to work thereby preventing homelessness or lessening the burden of a difficult situation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
After three years of attempted implementation, the Poverty mitigation program based on a national program called Circles, proved unsuccessful. We had been exploring the possibility of a van to facilitate a mobile outreach program and when a local dealership offered $0 down and $0 financing for 60 months we purchased the van in Dec of 2025. This results in the change to our strategic plan acronym from HOPE to HOME, replacing Poverty mitigation with Mobil outreach.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Due to failed success of the Circles program, we ceased this effort and moved to mobil outreach.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
EmergencyCold Weather Support. During 2025 Way Station received two separate grants for cold weather operations. Carroll county, in which Way Station is located, is the only county in NH which has no homeless shelters. Way Station has used the 2024-25 grant and the 2025-26 grant to provide hotel stays for those clients who qualify for them. This benefit is activated during cold snaps or snow storms when individuals who are camping in the woods or sleeping in their cars are most vulnerable. We provided well over 1000 hotel night stays. Additionally we provided 146 Cold Weather cards and camping equipment as some clients don't qualify to stay in hotels. Although the grants cover a 3 year period, the information provided is for the 2025 timeframe only.
$153,152 spentof which $149,921 as grants48% of program spendingProgram Implementers: Key to the success of the mission of the Way Station is the interaction of our Client Resource Coordinator (CRC) who oversees the day to day operations working directly with our homeless and housing insecure clients, ensuring their safety and coordinating with other services providers in the area. One of our objectives is not to overlap or duplicate services with these other agencies and as such refer clients to health care providers, substance abuse programs, and town welfare agencies to name a few. What we do provide and which the CRC coordinates is being a low barrier service for immediate needs. These include things such as scheduling showers, providing food appropriate to the client's living conditions, coordinating the donation and distribution of clothing and camping equipment and the purchase of items we provide to our clients at no cost. We provided 1817 services to individuals in 18 different towns in our service area. These service numbers do not include the over 1000 bed nights and other support covered during our cold weather grant period. Our second key employee, while part time, headed the Circles program. We were confident this program could…
$98,255 spent31% of program spendingCommunication. We provide phones and phone cards to stay in contact with our clients which number from 35-50 at any given time. We check on their well being and determine what services they need. We found the clients were abusing our generosity so we have become stricter with our clients, issuing only 1 phone/year, primarily to new clients. We issued 42 phones and 238 phone cards to clients in 2025
$24,869 spent8% of program spendingClient transportation: This includes: Gas cards and bicycles & bicycle repairs. The gas cards in denominations of $20 not only provide transportation to work and appointments but also allows for some amount of shelter. 479 Regular gas cards were issued.
$22,550 spent7% of program spendingCircles. This program was intended to help raise participants out of poverty by teaming individuals with community volunteers with higher life skills. After 3 years of pursuing this goal, one of our Strategic pillars, we made the difficult decision to abandon this effort having little success getting individuals interested in participating in the program and volunteers to support the effort. The expense reflects our National membership in the program and the miscellaneous expenses to organize the program.
$6,208 spent2% of program spendingFinancial Assistance or Stabilization. We provide one time payments for clients in emergency situations which could mean the difference between survival or devastation. Examples include covering a security deposit or first months rent for a long sought after rental apartment or replacing a car battery. We assisted 6 clients in 2025.
$5,833 spent2% of program spendingLaundry capability. Although we have washer and dryer capability at our facility, beginning during COVID our clients were not permitted to use them so we continued to issue prepaid laundry cards along with detergent for local laundromats. We continue with the expanded laundry program to another town in our service area so those clients wouldn't have to drive some distances to get this service. This enabled sanitary living conditions and a presentable appearance for work or appointments. We provided over 260 laundry cards, generally valued around $20
$4,849 spent2% of program spendingCamping equipment provided outside the cold weather program for individuals who don't have cars
$2,700 spent1% of program spendingGroceries. We coordinate with a local food pantry and delivered fresh food to 248 households. We are qualified to access the state food banks located in Berlin or Manchester, NH. In 2025 we received 3,186 lbs of shelf stable food which the food bank estimates a fair market value of $6,053 thereby saving the Way Station funds while providing much more food to our clients. For those clients who are couch surfing or living in their cars or camping or who just need supplemental foodstuffs we provide nonperishable items from the food bank which are eatable from the can. We had over 291 instances of providing nonperishable food in 2025. We also purchase gift cards for holiday seasons or as incentives for individuals to respond to the states annual point in time count.
$1,600 spent0% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $320,016.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $231k to $306k (+33%).
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: 2023 51% · 2024 38% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WAY STATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $26k → $33k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 STATION’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 STATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 STATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 56% — 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
91% of WAY STATION'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 $16k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
WAY STATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WAY STATION
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% 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 WAY STATION: 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 WAY STATION?
- WAY STATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,827 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($111,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WAY STATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $183,827 in grants to WAY STATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAY STATION?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $111,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAY STATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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