California · Nonprofit
PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES
PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,680,326 to it, the largest being RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ($472,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Path of Life Ministries does
Mission
Path of Life Ministries (polm) is a non-profit organization serving homeless individuals and families with the goal to rescue, restore, and rebuild lives. Polm provides emergency shelter and transitional housing with wrap around services and professional service coaching that promotes self-sufficiency and family restoration
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community shelter: this shelter is a 60 -90 day program that serves adults 18 and older by providing temporary housing along with assistance in obtaining important documents, job readiness, meals, showers, hygiene supplies and other necessary supportive services. This program provides 90 beds for eligible men and women with separate dormitories for each gender. 749 new enrollments; 767 exited 27,776 bed nights (2,315 bed nights per month avg) 84% bed utilization average length of stay 43 days 26 (3.5%) veterans served 270 (36%) chronic homeless 345 (46%) mental health disorder 84 (11%) age 18-24 served 73 (10%) age 62+ or older served connected with mainstream benefits at exit 551 (72%) income at exit 242 (31%) employment income at exit 63 (8%) other income at exit 179 (23%) increased employment at exit 29 (4%) increased income at exit 26 (3%) exits to interim housing 171 (22%) exits to permanent housing 106 (14%) total exits to a housing destination 277 (36%)
$583,682 spent7% of program spendingFamily shelter: this 60-90 day program is offered to parents and couples with children. It offers a safe haven to help families move toward self-reliance. It is a dormitory setting with 46 beds as well as cribs. Clients are provided with life skills, workshops, meals, showers, and laundry facilities. Case managers help families to establish a housing plan with goals. During their stay, they also assist with finding housing, employment, and rental assistance.82 households, 233 new enrollments; 125 children (age 0-17) (54%) 22 households, 196 individuals exited; 103 children (age 0-17) (53%) 15,244 bed nights (1,270 per month avg) 91% bed utilization average length of stay 63 days 7 (6%) chronic homeless (adults & hoh only) 18 (8%) mental health disorder 20 (9%) age 18-24 served connected with mainstream benefits at exit - 74 (80%) (adults & hoh only) income at exit 57 (29%) (adults & hoh only) employment income at exit 11 (4%) (adults & hoh only) other income at exit 49 (25%) (adults & hoh only) increased income at exit 11 (12%) (adults & hoh only) increased employment at exit 11 (12%) (adults & hoh only) exits to interim housing 64 individuals (33%) exits to permanent housing 63…
$1,993,084 spent24% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing program: this program provides continuous rental assistance and case management for chronically homeless individuals and their families, utilizing a housing first model with extremely low barriers for placement into housing with the support of housing navigators. Clients were provided with rental assistance, case management, life skills, transportation assistance, utility deposits and assistance, moving assistance, groceries, and childcare. 86 households, 139 individuals served; 29 children (age 0-17) served (21%) 10 (7%) age 18-24 served 97% retention rate in permanent supportive housing four (4) individuals deceased exits to interim housing 7 individuals (18% of exits) exits to permanent housing 18 individuals (49% of exits) total exits to a housing destination - 25 individuals (67% of exits)
$5,759,046 spent69% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,335,812.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.4M to $3.0M (+24%).
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: 2017 62% · 2018 78% · 2019 78% · 2020 78% · 2021 73% · 2022 81% · 2023 78% · 2024 67% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Chris Oberg
CEO
Board chair
Sergio Diaz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $255k → $475k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES’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
PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
62% 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 PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 51% · 2019 51% · 2020 38% · 2021 33% · 2022 74% · 2023 30% — 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
42% of PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES'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
87% of PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $694k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of Labor$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES: 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 PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES?
- PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,680,326 to it, the largest being RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ($472,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,680,326 in grants to PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES?
- RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $472,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 23 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