Michigan · Private foundation
Pathways Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Pathways Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $2.4M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $2.4M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.9M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.7M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $1,350,000 | 5 | 0% |
| We Shall Read | $1,000,000 | 4 | 91% |
| Girls Group | $875,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Brilliant Detroit | $750,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Keep Growing Detroit | $570,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Big Green | $550,000 | 3 | 5% |
| College for Creative Studies | $471,094 | 5 | 0% |
| Black Leaders Detroit | $375,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy | $325,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Orchards Children's Services Inc | $310,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $1,350,000 | 5 | 0% |
| We Shall Read | $1,000,000 | 4 | 91% |
| Girls Group | $875,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Brilliant Detroit | $750,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Keep Growing Detroit | $570,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Big Green | $550,000 | 3 | 5% |
| College for Creative Studies | $471,094 | 5 | 0% |
| Black Leaders Detroit | $375,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy | $325,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Orchards Children's Services Inc | $310,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| City Year Inc | $275,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Midnight Golf Program | $250,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Friends of Acadia | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program | $225,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $100,000 | 2 | 23% |
| Basblue Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Detroit Horse Power | $75,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Vista Maria | $70,000 | 1 | 0% |
| On My Own of Michigan | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Imagine Los Angeles Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Southern Illinois First | $27,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Grosse Pointe Theatre Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pathways Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · DTE Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Kresge Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · McGregor Fund · Flagstar Foundation Inc · United Jewish Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Pathways Foundation
- How much does Pathways Foundation give?
- Pathways Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $2,387,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Pathways Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Youth Development (22%), Education (20%).
- Who are Pathways Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Forgotten Harvest Inc ($1.4M), We Shall Read ($1.0M), Girls Group ($875k).
- Does Pathways Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pathways Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pathways Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, The Skillman Foundation.
- Where is Pathways Foundation based?
- Pathways Foundation is based in MI.
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