A Way Out

Analysis

A Way Out is a registered charity in United States, based in Carbondale, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, A Way Out reported income of $833k and spending of $748k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.0m to $833k (-18%), an average of -4.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, A Way Out sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ohio Peer Recovery Organizations ($833k), NCH Healthcare Systems Inc ($833k) and Keep a Child Alive ($833k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $285k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 3 employees.