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MathPath

MathPath (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,397 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($550,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$892k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$665k
Net assets
$3.6M
10/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What MathPath does

Mission

The organization's mission is to inspire and advance the most mathematically gifted middle school students in the U.S., Canada, and the world through an annual summer camp that is affordable for all qualified students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. MathPath is a 4-week residential math program attended each summer by about 100 mathematically interested students from around the world. It changes location from year to year; in 2025 it was held at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was attended face-to-face by 112 students. Financial aid was awarded to 13 of those students. Each week each student took 2 math courses from 12 offered and each workday also attended 3 all-camp lectures. A problem of the day was posed each day to encourage the students to think "outside the box." To give students a well-rounded experience, physical activities such as hiking, frisbee, and volleyball were offered in free time. The weekends were filled with trips to local sites depending on the location of the camp. Field trips included a science museum, candle factory, and amusement park.

    $748,007 spentof which $58,523 as grants$701,590 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $748,007.

02The 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 ($786k) Expenses 100 ($494k) Net assets 100 ($720k)2018 Revenue 103 ($810k) Expenses 103 ($506k) Net assets 143 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 80 ($631k) Expenses 88 ($435k) Net assets 177 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 78 ($616k) Expenses 41 ($201k) Net assets 245 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 67 ($529k) Expenses 61 ($300k) Net assets 311 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 157 ($1.2M) Expenses 125 ($616k) Net assets 361 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 136 ($1.1M) Expenses 153 ($757k) Net assets 387 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 113 ($886k) Expenses 156 ($770k) Net assets 460 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 113 ($892k) Expenses 160 ($788k) Net assets 507 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (160)Net assets (507)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $3.3M (+19%).

$721k
$1.0M
$1.3M
$1.8M
$2.2M
$2.6M
$2.8M
$3.3M
$3.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

11% of MathPath’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$293k
’17
$304k
’18
$197k
’19
$415k
’20
$229k
’21
$616k
’22
$309k
’23
$117k
’24
$104k
’25
5.6
months of
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.

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Listed545565666
Joined·+0+2+0+1+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·11002000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $21k → $104k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 MathPath’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

MathPath leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

98% 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 MathPath.

83%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 51% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% — 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 MathPath's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

93% of MathPath'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. Of the $44k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 7 states.

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $622k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MathPath runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MathPath

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds MathPath?
MathPath (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,397 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($550,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MathPath have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $665,397 in grants to MathPath, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MathPath?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $550,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MathPath 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.

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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 13 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