Maryland · Nonprofit
ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES
ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES (Maryland) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,559,939 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($289,631). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Adoptions Together Inc Dba as Paths for Families does
Mission
To build and support healthy lifelong connections for every child and advocate for continuous improvement of systems that strengthen family well-being.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule oplacement services: in its infant adoption program, paths for families (pff) finds families for every child in need, no matter how simple or complex their needs may be. Pff provides free counseling to pregnant women and their partners who face difficult decisions about the safety and security of their children. Counseling services to manage the adoption relationship continue to be available at no charge throughout the lifetime of parents who place a child for adoption. Prospective adoptive parents complete home studies and training to help prepare them for the unique issues associated with raising children through adoption. Birth and adoptive families receive support in maintaining healthy, secure open adoption relationships. In its placement program for older children growing up in public foster care, pff recruits, trains and supports prospective adoptive parents who seek to adopt school age and teenagers (up to age 21) who are in public foster care throughout the united states. Intensive training focuses on developing the skills needed to care for children who have suffered repeated trauma throughout childhood. The agency matches children with families and works…
$754,743 spent$652,377 earned by the program22% of program spendingHome study services: pff provides adoption home studies for families residing in maryland, virginia and the district of columbia who seek to adopt children from the united states and abroad. Adoptive families are provided support and guidance after placement to assist the child and parents as they transition to their new family. All home study and post placement services are completed in accordance with state, federal and international requirements.
$513,297 spent$485,335 earned by the program15% of program spendingPermanency support services: pff provides counseling, guidance and training to birth, adoptive, foster, kinship and guardianship families. Services are designed to help children and young adults heal from past trauma and provide parents the understanding and tools that are needed to help children and youth thrive. Counseling services are provided to individuals, families and groups and are all strength based. Pff provides professional development for mental health and child/family serving professionals to enhance the capacity of the community to effectively understand and respond to the unique needs of this population.
$2,202,944 spent$2,225,273 earned by the program63% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,470,984.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $858k to $1.6M (+88%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2023 4% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $85k → $212k.
10 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 44% · 2019 48% · 2020 32% · 2021 25% · 2022 35% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $696k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record — $751k federal, $2.2M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$751k
- MD$2.1M
- NJ$35k
- VT$7k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES?
- ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES (Maryland) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,559,939 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($289,631). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $1,559,939 in grants to ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $289,631 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 43 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing