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DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC

DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,604 to it, the largest being Dogwood Health Trust ($548,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$924k
Revenue FY2025
12
Funders on record
$711k
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%

Against its field

DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve36.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($211k) Expenses 100 ($167k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 53 ($112k) Expenses 82 ($137k) Net assets 98 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 45 ($95k) Expenses 87 ($145k) Net assets 95 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 80 ($170k) Expenses 104 ($174k) Net assets 95 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 86 ($182k) Expenses 146 ($243k) Net assets 91 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 168 ($354k) Expenses 179 ($299k) Net assets 95 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 629 ($1.3M) Expenses 209 ($349k) Net assets 163 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 344 ($727k) Expenses 214 ($358k) Net assets 189 ($2.7M)2025 Revenue 437 ($924k) Expenses 289 ($482k) Net assets 220 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (437)Expenses (289)Net assets (220)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

70% of DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$45k
’17
−$24k
’18
−$50k
’19
−$4k
’20
−$61k
’21
$55k
’22
$982k
’23
$370k
’24
$442k
’25
37
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $515k.

Funder
'17
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
4
3
5
5

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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

DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

77%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

100% of DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Dental Foundation of North Carolina Inc80%Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Davidson County79%North Carolina Lions Incorporated79%Friends of the North Carolina Accessible Books and Library Services79%The School of Government Foundation Inc79%Delancey Street North Carolina78%Murdoch Center Foundation Inc78%The Community Foundation of Nc East Inc78%

Nationally

Montana School for the Deaf and Blind Foundation82%The Foundation for Deaf Education Inc81%Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind Found81%Dental Foundation of North Carolina Inc80%Mooresville Christian Academy Inc79%North Broward Hospital District Charitable Foundation Inc79%Communication Service For The Deaf Inc79%Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Davidson County79%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 9%Fundraising 12%

Governance

22
board members
95%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC?
DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,604 to it, the largest being Dogwood Health Trust ($548,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $710,604 in grants to DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC?
Dogwood Health Trust is the largest funder on record, with $548,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing