Washington · Nonprofit
PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING
PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,744 to it, the largest being LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC ($119,633). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $304k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Pathfinder Manufacturing does
Mission
To promote the personal growth and economic independence of high school students and adults living with disabilities and/or employment barriers by providing training programs and employment opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Pathfinder Manufacturing's program goals are threefold. First we strive to keep kids in school to receive their high school diploma while helping to build a sense of accomplishment and self-esteem in them. Secondly, we want to help them learn the skills that will help them be an asset to future employers. Among those skills are being on time, working as a team and giving a full day's work for a full day's pay. The last goal is multi-faceted-teach them a work skill that promises a living wage for future independence and financial stability or help them believe that they can learn and guide them forward into further educational exploration and study. In addition to the technical skills studied in our classroom and then applied in hands-on work on the production floor, students earn high school credits toward their high school graduation. Once students move from the classroom to the production floor they begin to earn a stipend equal to washington state minimum wage.the program serves as both a stepping stone and safety net to vulnerable, at-risk youth at the brink of young adulthood. We have designed our program model to assure an alternative model for this difficult to serve youth…
$4,910,213 spent$5,125,594 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,910,213.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.3M to $4.6M (−27%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 25% · 2021 14% · 2022 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Chief executive
David Trader
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $61.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING’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
PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 31% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
13% of PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 21% 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
PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING's revenue grew 30% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING: 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 PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING?
- PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,744 to it, the largest being LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC ($119,633). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $303,744 in grants to PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING?
- LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $119,633 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATHFINDER MANUFACTURING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2024), 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