Alaska · Nonprofit
LIFE PATHWAY
LIFE PATHWAY (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $61,250 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($61,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $514k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $355k
What Life Pathway does
Mission
To provide hangar, tools and assistance for missionaries to maintain airplanes; fly cargo and passengers to service missionaries and bible camps; and provide flight training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Connected youth and staff to bible camps via flights. Took educational training and supplies to villages. Served missionaries aviation maintenance needs.
$259,247 spentof which $15,650 as grants$37,164 earned by the program56% of program spendingIn partnership with the lahu church in thailand, we are developing the bible curriculum for children and are seeking to raise support to build a small sunday school room for the childrens classes and other teaching opportunities. This village has about 1,000 people, mostly lahu, and some akha, lisu, karen, and shan. We are also creating and teaching a basic bible curriculum for lahu children in sunday school. Only 10,000 people in thailand speak this small lahu dialect. Additionally, we are currently developing a basic discipleship curriculum for youth in thai. It teaches the fundamentals of christian doctrine and biblical history. In partnership with two burmese brothers, we are translating our own resources into burmese for theological and pastoral training among the hilltribes. We are in the process for creating a basic biblical theology resource for teaching oral-based learners the framework and structure of the bible and how its diverse parts fit within its christ-centered whole. We will then translate it into various languages.
$200,443 spentof which $200,443 as grants44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $459,690.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $456k to $304k (−33%).
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.
72% of LIFE PATHWAY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Shawn Bickford
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LIFE PATHWAY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LIFE PATHWAY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LIFE PATHWAY's revenue grew 54% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFE PATHWAY
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 LIFE PATHWAY: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFE PATHWAY?
- LIFE PATHWAY (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $61,250 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($61,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFE PATHWAY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $61,250 in grants to LIFE PATHWAY.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE PATHWAY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE PATHWAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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