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A BRIGHTER WAY

EIN 81-1186430 YPSILANTI, MI

Revenue 2024
$791,563
Expenses 2024
$729,875

Program services were 75.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
124 PEARL ST STE 304

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

Mission

ABW helps formerly incarcerated individuals living in Washtenaw County to build stable, successful, and fulfilling lives. We support these returned citizens by forging strong relationships with our mentoring teams, community resources, and committed advocates. The benefits are a richer community, reduced recidivism, and increased public safety.

Activities or mission (Part I)

A Brighter Way ABW helps formerly incarcerated individuals make a successful return to society. Our primary activities to achieve this are mentoring programs, advocacy, and direct support for basic needs.

  • ABW helps formerly incarcerated individuals living in Washtenaw County to build stable, successful, and fulfilling lives. We support these returned citizens by forging strong relationships with our mentoring teams, community resources, and committed advocates. In 2024, we continued to expand mentoring and housing services, including a program for services and mentoring to elder clients, provided rent diversion services, and provided direct housing services to participants.

    Expenses $547,861 · Grants $19,008 · Revenue $201,123

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.

  • Adam Grant

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $82,097
    From this org
    $68,788
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,309
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jeanne Ross

    Board Member and Development Director

    Total calculated
    $31,746
    From this org
    $31,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $546
    Hours/week
    20

  • Al Newman

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Larry O'Connell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Bonnie Billups

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Mary King

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Cynthia Harrison

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Joe Thomas

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Glynis Anderson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Leroy Harris

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Kimberly Thomas

    Board Member until November 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

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
    $791,563
    Expenses
    $729,875
    Contributions
    $585,610
    Grants paid
    $19,008
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,013,720
    Expenses
    $551,027
    Contributions
    $954,510
    Grants paid
    $28,547
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $249,447
    Expenses
    $199,398
    Contributions
    $238,308
    Grants paid
    $11,065

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
    $96,404
    Expenses
    $123,370
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,236

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $97,441
    Expenses
    $74,568
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,202

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Cozine Welch
Mailing address
PO Box 8132Ann Arbor MI 48104
Website
abrighterway.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.