Known as the Way
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463612984
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Carrollton, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9402051957
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,112
- Expenses
- $77,054
- Assets
- $238,687
- Liabilities
- $6,413
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AARON FAIR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- AARON FAIR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DANIEL BODNAR (DIRECTOR)
- JOSHUA BROWN (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Known As The Way was founded in SE Asia with the goal of reaching people with the Gospel through social justice, discipleship, and church planting.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sacred Farm Sustainability Project - an environment for transforminglives holistically through the power of the gospel, by having a life on life discipleshipenvironment that allows all people to be equipped for the work of ministry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.8%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 17.2%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.4%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.1; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.8% of revenue deployed · 17.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.