Michigan · Nonprofit
HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE
HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE (Michigan) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,681,025 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($3,900,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- The Wadhams Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Vaughan Foundationshared funderslocal
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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: 2019 2% · 2020 11% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $172k → $2.4M.
8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 58% · 2020 45% · 2021 42% · 2022 52% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
100% of HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
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 29 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Wadhams Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Vaughan Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 21 organizations near you
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brown Tassell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Outdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americana Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Lakes Fishery Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Walters Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James a and Faith Knight Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fundshared fundersMI · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
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 HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE: 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.
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 HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE?
- HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE (Michigan) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,681,025 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($3,900,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $7,681,025 in grants to HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE?
- THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 29funders 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