New Jersey · Nonprofit
OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE
OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE (New Jersey) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,041,955 to it, the largest being TURRELL FUND ($396,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $589k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $272k
What Ophelia J Berry Fund Inc Pathways to College does
Mission
Providing counseling service in multiple states to high school students of color that wish to attend college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Pathways is extremely proud that, continuing a trend that began with our founding as an independent nonprofit in 2003, 100% of our class of 2024 earned high school graduation and college acceptance. These scholars began their high school tenure during the height of a pandemic that devastated the very communities targeted by pathways, where students of color living in poverty are concentrated. Despite the ongoing effects of covid, our scholars persevered through unprecedented challenges to achieve milestones that have only become more essential in the modern economy. The blended-learning national scholars program (nsp) successfully served students in gary, in, newark, nj, and pine bluff, arkansas. Guided by the research-based, discussion-based pathways curriculum, scholars developed the knowledge, skills, and habits for success in college and life during virtual sessions. Pathways immersed nsp scholars in history, the arts, sciences, and higher education planning during college and cultural trips in chicago, il, jackson, ms, and philadelphia, pa. Pathways proudly expanded its reach in gary, in, by launching its school- based scholars program at aspire charter academy, working with…
$793,206 spent$294,375 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $793,206.
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 $454k to $3.3M (+618%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Timothy Koller
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $60k → $120k.
10 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE’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
OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
50% 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 OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 48% · 2019 31% · 2020 43% · 2021 31% · 2022 42% · 2023 33% — 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
36% of OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
83% of OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $521k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE?
- OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE (New Jersey) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,041,955 to it, the largest being TURRELL FUND ($396,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,041,955 in grants to OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE?
- TURRELL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $396,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPHELIA J BERRY FUND INC PATHWAYS TO COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 14 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