Iowa · Nonprofit
PATHFINDERS RC&D
PATHFINDERS RC&D (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $858,698 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($445,067). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $859k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Pathfinders RC&D does
Mission
To improve the local community by working with local citizens to develop and implement projects related to economic development, natural resource conservation and recreation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization works in collaboration with the south central iowa workforce development board in overseeing workforce development in appanoose, davis, hardin, jefferson, keokuk, lucas, mahaska, marshall, monroe, poweshiek, tama, van buren, wapello, and wayne counties. The organization has been assigned all grants awarded to south central iowa local workforce development area.
$1,199,753 spent$906,996 earned by the program52% of program spendingThe organization oversees mine reclamation projects in conjunction with the united states department of the interior office of surface mining reclamation & enforcement and with the iowa department of agriculture and land stewardship.
$443,146 spent$335,012 earned by the program19% of program spendingThe organization performs a variety of smaller community services. This includes grant writing, grant administration, a revolving loan program, a sustainability program and a regional conservation partnership program with nrcs and iowa department of agriculture and land stewardship.
$311,151 spent$235,226 earned by the program14% of program spendingByway services include the management and preservation of the historic hills scenic byway in southeastern iowa. The historic hills scenic byway is a part of iowa's dot coalition of designated byways. The organization manages the finances of outside organizations, including all administrative costs. Present organizations include but are not limited to the jefferson/keokuk/van buren/washington child welfare decategorization board, and southern iowa development and conservation authority.
$347,850 spent$262,969 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,301,900.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $1.7M (+35%).
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: 2023 21% · 2024 9% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of PATHFINDERS RC&D’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Deke Wood
Chair
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 fell $84k → $81k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 PATHFINDERS RC&D’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
PATHFINDERS RC&D leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 PATHFINDERS RC&D.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 89% · 2022 62% · 2023 63% — 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
40% of PATHFINDERS RC&D's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
53% of PATHFINDERS RC&D'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 $403k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $456k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PATHFINDERS RC&D has grown faster than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PATHFINDERS RC&D
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PATHFINDERS RC&D: 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 PATHFINDERS RC&D?
- PATHFINDERS RC&D (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $858,698 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($445,067). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PATHFINDERS RC&D have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $858,698 in grants to PATHFINDERS RC&D, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATHFINDERS RC&D?
- COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $445,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATHFINDERS RC&D find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 11 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