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MY WAY OUT INC

EIN 87-1385421 MILWAUKEE, WI

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Revenue 2025
$838,005
Expenses 2025
$426,475

Program services were 62.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I40
Classification
1000
Street
3514 W BRANTING LN

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

USING THE VOICE AND EXPERTISE OF 'CREDIBLE MESSENGERS' WE EMPOWER, INSPIRE AND ENRICH THE LIVES OF JUSTICE-IMPACTED INDIVIDUALS BY BRINGING TOGETHER CUSTOMIZED COMMUNITY RESOURCES, SUPPORTIVE SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND SECOND-CHANCE EMPLOYERS. BY REDUCING RECIDIVISM, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES THROUGH PEER NETWORKS, AND KEEPING FAMILIES TOGETHER, WE WILL HELP BRING HOPE AND PROSPERITY TO MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES.

  • REACHING IN-HELPING OUT: PERSONALIZED PRE- AND POST-RELEASE REENTRY PLANNING FOR JUSTICE-IMPACTED INDIVIDUALS IN WIS. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS.ONBOARDING JUSTICE-IMPACTED INDIVIDUALS POST-RELEASE TO MY WAY OUT'S CRM TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM TO PROVIDE 24/7 ACCESS TO AN ASSIGNED SUPPORTIVE SERVICE PROVIDER FOR UP TO 3 YEARS POST RELEASE AND ACCESS TO MULTI-FACETED SUPPORT SERVICES. BUILDING A PATH TO SUCCESS'- CERTIFICATE PROGRAM, A COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN MY WAY OUT, THE MILKY WAY TECH HUB, AND THE U.W. MADISON EXTENSION TO PROVIDE A 6-WEEK TRAINING PROGRAM FOR INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS TO PROVIDE ESSENTIAL HANDS-ON SKILLS TRAINING FEATURING RENT SMART, FINANCIAL LITERACY, BRIDGING THE TECH GAP TECH TO NAVIGATE ONLINE SEARCHES FOR RESOURCES AND EMPLOYMENT, RESUME WRITING & INTERVIEWING SKILLS, AND EXPOSURE TO AI-VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING IN KEY CAREERS.

    Expenses $266,093

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Karen Coy-Romano

    PRESIDENT & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $39,000
    From this org
    $39,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Barbara Cerda

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Carlson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Decorah Gordon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick Snyder

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarwat Sharif

    VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $1,923
    From this org
    $1,923
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Rodrick Cureton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Nadiyah Johnson

    VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mandy Potapenko

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darren Anglin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jamaal Napoleon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ruben Gaona

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $83,000
    From this org
    $83,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $838,005
    Expenses
    $426,475
    Contributions
    $838,005
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $399,041
    Expenses
    $394,328
    Contributions
    $396,141
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $271,583
    Expenses
    $206,698
    Contributions
    $270,103
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $152,092
    Expenses
    $68,776
    Contributions
    $152,060
    Grants paid
    $125

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Eli Rivera
Mailing address
829 E Dakota StMilwaukee WI 53207

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.