Way Maker Place
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933074695
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Springfield, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6158306318
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Residential Mental Health Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,465
- Assets
- $350
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chris Banning (President)
- Paul Hershberger (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Chris Banning (President)
- Susan L Banning (Secretary, Treasurer, Custodian of Contributions)
- Paul Hershberger (Vice President)
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
Way Maker Place is faith-based non-profit that provides housing, support, mentoring and other services to men ages 18 and up who cannot live independently because of a mental or physical disability.
What it reported doing in 2025
Way Maker Place provides room and board housing in a safe, supportive living environment for men with mental and physical disabilities. During 2025, the organization provided housing and support services to two individuals, helping promote stability, safety, and quality of life while giving their families assurance that their loved ones were living in a safe environment. The home has a capacity for 7 residents.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $74K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 1 of 2 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.