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Paths for Success Foundation

PATHS FOR SUCCESS FOUNDATION is a non-profit organization designed to assist alabama citizens in obtaining skills, credentials, and/or certifications that lead to gainful employment.

$439k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$621k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $309,787, the rows itemized in this filing. The $438,873 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $129,086 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$17,530
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN C CALHOUN STATE JUNIOR COLLEGE$105,709
TRENHOLM STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$69,285
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$49,000
GADSDEN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$20,639
BEVILL STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$17,530
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$12,800
ENTERPRISE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$12,800
COASTAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$9,024
BISHOP STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$6,500
DRAKE STATE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%DRAKE STATE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $9k → 11%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $112k → 15%ENTERPRISE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $13k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $7k → 16%BEVILL STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $18k → 17%SHELTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $17k → 17%NORTHWEST COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $7k → 17%TRENHOLM STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $69k → 18%BISHOP STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $7k → 19%COASTAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $12k → 21%CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $18k → 22%DRAKE STATE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $7k → 11%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $49k → 15%JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 16%BEVILL STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 17%TRENHOLM STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $59k → 18%COASTAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $9k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$548k · 8 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$548k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-5%

Still filing today

25%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $161k
  • JC
    JOHN C CALHOUN STATE JUNIOR COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $130k
  • TS
    TRENHOLM STATE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $129k · revenue 0% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

  • CV
    CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $18k
  • SS
    SHELTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $17k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
1/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $160,946 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYJOHN C CALHOUN STATE JUNIOR COLLEGE: $129,510 · OtherJOHN C CALHOUN STATE JUNIOR COLLEGEGADSDEN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,751 · OtherGADSDEN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCBEVILL STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $32,680 · OtherBEVILL STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGECOASTAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20,831 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $18,800 · OtherCHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $17,557 · OtherSHELTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $17,367 · Other+4 more: $42,272 · Other+4 moreTRENHOLM STATE FOUNDATION INC: $128,722 · EducationTRENHOLM STATE FOUNDATION…BISHOP STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,500 · EducationJEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,499 · Education
Other$480,714Education$140,721

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRENHOLM STATE FOUNDATION INC: $128,722 over 2y, 47% of budgetDRAKE STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,605 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHWEST-SHOALS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,867 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBISHOP STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,499 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds TRENHOLM STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DRAKE STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENTERPRISE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST-SHOALS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BISHOP STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alabama Power Foundat…Alabama Partnership f…The Daniel Foundation…
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Alabama Partnership for Children · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Paths for Success Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paths for Success Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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