Make Way Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842500198
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Kettering, OH, USA
- Phone
- 9375431354
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $147,080
- Expenses
- $129,307
- Assets
- $43,169
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dustin Renz (President)
People named in this filing
- Dustin Renz (President)
- Nathan Danser (Secretary)
- Joshua McCamey (Treasurer)
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
Make Way Ministries exists to empower the Body of Christ to awaken through revival, mature through discipleship and arise to evangelism as we make way for our soon-coming King, Jesus Christ. We accomplish this through our national and international speaking ministry, our publishing ministry, our online platforms, our local outreach, as well as through evangelistic training for churches, individuals and future ministers.
What it reported doing in 2025
We have partnered with several ministries that work to further our mission of discipleship, evangelism and training. These include missionaries and missions projects through the Jim Palmers Senders Fund (Ohio Ministry Network), missionary Tim Bentley in Macedonia (AGWM), Rob Wehrley in Nicaragua (Bold Ministries), The Covering Women's Discipleship Program (Circleville, OH), Pure Life Ministries Brazil Men's Discipleship Program (Brasilia, Brazil) and Plus Nothing Ministries (Fort Collins, CO). Funds have been given as well as resources to support and strengthen these ministries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.1%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
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: 12.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 67%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 40.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.1% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $107K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.