How much did PATHWAYS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

PATHWAYS FOUNDATION reported 19 grants totaling $2,387,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is PATHWAYS FOUNDATION based?

PATHWAYS FOUNDATION is based in MI.

PATHWAYS FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

PATHWAYS FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$2.4M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$300k

Largest

01What you fund

0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Youth Development$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.9MEducation$1.5MCommunity Improvement$570kEmployment$375kEnvironment$250kHuman Services$130kOther$3.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

scholarshipfood

2021

scholarshipfood

2022

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2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $3k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
$250k+4 grants · $1.1M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$36M

Total assets

Largest grants

WE SHALL READ$300,000
FRIENDS OF ACADIA$250,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$250,000
GIRLS GROUP$250,000
BRILLIANT DETROIT$150,000
KEEP GROWING DETROIT$150,000
DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM$150,000
ACLU OF MICHIGAN$125,000
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES$120,000
BLACK LEADERS DETROIT$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OAKLAND COUNTY$100,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GLOBAL$75,000
MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM$75,000
VISTA MARIA$70,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.5M · 24 repeat orgs$380k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +121% since the first grant, against +98% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.5M

$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%

+98%

Still filing today

58%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Youth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

FORGOTTEN HARVEST
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +32%
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WE SHALL READ
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +148% · 91% of their budget
GIRLS GROUP
5× · 2020–2024 · $875k · revenue +121%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF ACADIAgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +98%
VISTA MARIAgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue +84%
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ON MY OWN MICHIGAN
one grant, 2024 · $50k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promote economic growth in the city of detroit

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Endeavor Detroit

Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…

Community Improvement

Detroit 90 90

The organization provides educational management services to public school academies in the State of Michigan

Education

The Greening of Detroit

Growing tomorrow's detroit...together.

Environment

Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan, the state's business roundtable, is dedicated to making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, education, widely shared prosperity and a healthy economy. the organization is composed exclusively of the executive…

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Detroit Parent Network

A network of parents working to build and engage parents and others to ensure every child has a champion.

Human Services

Good City Mentors

Good City Mentors partners inspiring professionals and creative brands with local high schools. Empowering youth through school-day mentorship. Our innovative team-mentoring model creates a mentoring community where everyone is invested in…

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Challenge Detroit

To retain and attract young leaders from across the nation to the region who have the courage, passion, and drive to make a difference, and to provide them with the opportunity to collaborate and lend their intellectual capital to…

Community Improvement

Goodwill's Green Works Inc

To provide training and develop skills of people with employment challenges to enable them to work.

Employment

Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about enviromental issues.

Environment

Home Builders Association of Michigan

A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.

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The Detroit Equity Report Inc

To promote equality and inclusion in society.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keep Growing Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Vista Maria. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

15/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,242,500Youth Development$1,950,000Food & Nutrition$1,900,000Education$1,471,094Community Improvement$570,000Employment$375,000Environment$250,000Human Services$130,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way for Southeastern MichiganMI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast · The Skillman Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · McGregor Fund · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Ford Motor Company Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation PATHWAYS FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WE SHALL READ.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 861665696 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WE SHALL READ, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 91% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Pathways Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pathways Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PATHWAYS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?