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PATH TO SHINE

PATH TO SHINE (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,651 to it, the largest being MCCUNE FAMILY FOUNDATION UNDER AGREEMENT ($199,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$126k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$246k
Net assets
$204k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Path to Shine does

Mission

To provide mentoring and tutoring to children.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Providing academic and social support to elementary school children resulting in increased self confidence and success in the classroom.

    $29,195 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,195.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($216k) Expenses 100 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($205k)2023 Revenue 53 ($114k) Expenses 1341 ($139k) Net assets 88 ($180k)2024 Revenue 58 ($126k) Expenses 911 ($94k) Net assets 100 ($204k)
202220232024
Revenue (58)Expenses (911)Net assets (100)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 2022 to 2023, from $206k to $184k (−11%).

$206k
$184k
$204k
202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of PATH TO SHINE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$205k
’22
−$25k
’23
$31k
’24
238
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $59k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Bwl Charities Incunclassified
$1k
funders
1
1
1
2
1
2
3
3
1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 TO SHINE’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 TO SHINE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

81%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 68% — 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.

Where its funders are

PATH TO SHINE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 2 states in all.

IL
GA

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

PATH TO SHINE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−24% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like PATH TO SHINE

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 Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PATH TO SHINE: 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 TO SHINE?
PATH TO SHINE (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,651 to it, the largest being MCCUNE FAMILY FOUNDATION UNDER AGREEMENT ($199,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PATH TO SHINE have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $245,651 in grants to PATH TO SHINE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PATH TO SHINE?
MCCUNE FAMILY FOUNDATION UNDER AGREEMENT is the largest funder on record, with $199,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PATH TO SHINE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 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