WAY STATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P40

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 1888

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

• EmergencyCold Weather Support. During 2025 Way Station received two separate grants for cold weather operations. Carroll county, in which Way Station is located, is the only county in NH which has no homeless shelters. Way Station has used the 2024-25 grant and the 2025-26 grant to provide hotel stays for those clients who qualify for them. This benefit is activated during cold snaps or snow storms when individuals who are camping in the woods or sleeping in their cars are most vulnerable. We provided well over 1000 hotel night stays. Additionally we provided 146 Cold Weather cards and camping equipment as some clients don't qualify to stay in hotels. Although the grants cover a 3 year period, the information provided is for the 2025 timeframe only.

  Expenses $153,152 · Grants $149,921

• Program Implementers: Key to the success of the mission of the Way Station is the interaction of our Client Resource Coordinator (CRC) who oversees the day to day operations working directly with our homeless and housing insecure clients, ensuring their safety and coordinating with other services providers in the area. One of our objectives is not to overlap or duplicate services with these other agencies and as such refer clients to health care providers, substance abuse programs, and town welfare agencies to name a few. What we do provide and which the CRC coordinates is being a low barrier service for immediate needs. These include things such as scheduling showers, providing food appropriate to the client's living conditions, coordinating the donation and distribution of clothing and camping equipment and the purchase of items we provide to our clients at no cost. We provided 1817 services to individuals in 18 different towns in our service area. These service numbers do not include the over 1000 bed nights and other support covered during our cold weather grant period. Our second key employee, while part time, headed the Circles program. We were confident this program could provide successful outcomes for potential participants, raising them out of poverty and providing good life skills. This program, however, couldn't get off the ground after three years of effort. Based on the recommendation of the program workers and volunteers, the board decided to abandon the Circles program in Dec of 2025.

  Expenses $98,255

• Communication. We provide phones and phone cards to stay in contact with our clients which number from 35-50 at any given time. We check on their well being and determine what services they need. We found the clients were abusing our generosity so we have become stricter with our clients, issuing only 1 phone/year, primarily to new clients. We issued 42 phones and 238 phone cards to clients in 2025

  Expenses $24,869

• Client transportation: This includes: Gas cards and bicycles & bicycle repairs. The gas cards in denominations of $20 not only provide transportation to work and appointments but also allows for some amount of shelter. 479 Regular gas cards were issued.

  Expenses $22,550

• Circles. This program was intended to help raise participants out of poverty by teaming individuals with community volunteers with higher life skills. After 3 years of pursuing this goal, one of our Strategic pillars, we made the difficult decision to abandon this effort having little success getting individuals interested in participating in the program and volunteers to support the effort. The expense reflects our National membership in the program and the miscellaneous expenses to organize the program.

  Expenses $6,208

• Financial Assistance or Stabilization. We provide one time payments for clients in emergency situations which could mean the difference between survival or devastation. Examples include covering a security deposit or first months rent for a long sought after rental apartment or replacing a car battery. We assisted 6 clients in 2025.

  Expenses $5,833

• Laundry capability. Although we have washer and dryer capability at our facility, beginning during COVID our clients were not permitted to use them so we continued to issue prepaid laundry cards along with detergent for local laundromats. We continue with the expanded laundry program to another town in our service area so those clients wouldn't have to drive some distances to get this service. This enabled sanitary living conditions and a presentable appearance for work or appointments. We provided over 260 laundry cards, generally valued around $20

  Expenses $4,849

• Camping equipment provided outside the cold weather program for individuals who don't have cars

  Expenses $2,700

• Groceries. We coordinate with a local food pantry and delivered fresh food to 248 households. We are qualified to access the state food banks located in Berlin or Manchester, NH. In 2025 we received 3,186 lbs of shelf stable food which the food bank estimates a fair market value of $6,053 thereby saving the Way Station funds while providing much more food to our clients. For those clients who are couch surfing or living in their cars or camping or who just need supplemental foodstuffs we provide nonperishable items from the food bank which are eatable from the can. We had over 291 instances of providing nonperishable food in 2025. We also purchase gift cards for holiday seasons or as incentives for individuals to respond to the states annual point in time count.

  Expenses $1,600

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.

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

  $407,056

  Expenses

  $391,313

  Contributions

  $402,495

  Grants paid

  $221,761

• 2024

  Revenue

  $388,158

  Expenses

  $333,252

  Contributions

  $388,083

  Grants paid

  $2,014

• 2023

  Revenue

  $311,327

  Expenses

  $263,854

  Contributions

  $311,276

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $103,986

  Expenses

  $118,897

  Contributions

  $105,537

  Grants paid

  $0

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.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $146,466

  Expenses

  $84,494

  Assets (EOY)

  $143,661

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

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

• NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $55,250

  2024 · For general support and increase services, outreach and awareness

• FORGOOD INC

  $32,865

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED

• NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $30,000

  2022 · For unrestricted operating support

• FORGOOD INC

  $18,069

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED

• NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTRIC CO-OP FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2023 · Funding will Way Stations poverty alleviation program, Circles, which builds an individuals skillls for successfully navigating themselves out of poverty.

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $5,100

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

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