THE WAY TO HAPPINESS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

2000

Street

201 E BROADWAY

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 · 2024

• DISTRIBUTION OF "THE WAY TO HAPPINESS" THE WAY TO HAPPINESS FOUNDATION'S ("TWTH") PURPOSE IS TO REVERSE THE MORAL DECAY IN SOCIETY BY RESTORING TRUST AND HONESTY IN THE WORLD THROUGH EDUCATION AND THE DISSEMINATION OF A NONRELIGIOUS COMMON SENSE MORAL CODE: "THE WAY TO HAPPINESS", WHICH CONSISTS OF 21 ILLUSTRATED PRECEPTS SUCH AS "LOVE AND HELP CHILDREN", "HONOR AND HELP YOUR PARENTS", "SET A GOOD EXAMPLE", AND "RESPECT THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF OTHERS". THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE IN 119 LANGUAGES AND OVER 278 NEW CUSTOM COVERS FOR THE WAY TO HAPPINESS BOOKLET WERE PRODUCED IN 2024.

  Expenses $477,735 · Grants $29,120 · Revenue $56,965

• THE WAY TO HAPPINESS SERVICES AND CAMPAIGNS. THE WAY TO HAPPINESS FOUNDATION PROVIDED CHARACTER EDUCATION ONLINE COURSES AND SEMINARS, INFORMATION KITS AND EDUCATOR MATERIALS TO STUDENTS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, BUSINESSES AND CORRECTION FACILITIES INTERNATIONALLY INCLUDING IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, UK, EUROPE, LATIN AND CENTRAL AMERICA, AFRICA, ASIA, AND AUSTRALIA. PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS WERE CONDUCTED TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT MORAL BEHAVIOR, ESPECIALLY AMONGST YOUTH, THROUGH PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS, CONTESTS, ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN-UP DRIVES, WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, AND OTHER COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES.

  Expenses $72,599 · Grants $14,500

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $595,682

  Expenses

  $669,634

  Contributions

  $538,717

  Grants paid

  $43,620

• 2023

  Revenue

  $735,984

  Expenses

  $658,476

  Contributions

  $652,085

  Grants paid

  $44,821

• 2022

  Revenue

  $425,804

  Expenses

  $546,766

  Contributions

  $331,213

  Grants paid

  $25,127

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

  Revenue

  $636,501

  Expenses

  $511,632

  Assets (EOY)

  $217,475

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $600,422

  Expenses

  $566,286

  Assets (EOY)

  $90,967

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $497,092

  Expenses

  $537,302

  Assets (EOY)

  $98,844

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,142,858

  Expenses

  $1,399,164

  Assets (EOY)

  $150,603

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,523,960

  Expenses

  $1,515,435

  Assets (EOY)

  $513,688

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,258,171

  Expenses

  $2,473,479

  Assets (EOY)

  $679,720

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,487,966

  Expenses

  $1,602,221

  Assets (EOY)

  $388,792

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

• ABLE INTERNATIONAL

  $31,121

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• ABLE INTERNATIONAL

  $29,120

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• ABLE INTERNATIONAL

  $25,127

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• ASSOCIATION FOR BETTER LIVING AND EDUCATION

  $31,200

  2024 · CHARACTER EDUCATION PROGRAMS

• GRANT CARDONE FOUNDATION INC

  $31,000

  2023 · PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MORAL SENSE CODE

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $7,978

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• ASSOCIATION FOR BETTER LIVING AND EDUCATION

  $7,700

  2022 · CHARACTER EDUCATION PROGRAMS

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $0

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $0 raised

  2024 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $0 to charity

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $0 raised

  2023 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $0 to charity

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $2,050 raised

  2022 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $1,074 to charity

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $10,435 raised

  2021 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $5,449 to charity

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $1,225 raised

  2020 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $376 to charity

• HAROLD'S CAR DONATION SERVICE INC.

  $975 raised

  2019 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $451 to charity

• RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

  $675 raised

  2019 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $313 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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