Illinois · Nonprofit
PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES
PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,855,956 to it, the largest being AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) ($12,219,707). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Pathlights Human Services does
Mission
To inform, support and empower individuals as they navigate aging.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Care coordination: the organization completed 3,036 holistic assessments for older adults, their families in fy25. Based on the identified needs of the older adults, staff made the appropriate referrals to state and federally subsidized programming to assist the older adult to age in place safely in the community for as long as possible. Caregivers conducted 7,740 screenings at area hospitals and rehabilitation facilities to provide long-term care options to individuals including home and community based services.
$2,153,479 spent43% of program spendingTitle iii-b, under the older americans act, provides essential community-based supports that help older adults remain independent and age in place, including information, assistance and referrals, in-home services, options counseling, senior health assistance program, housing assistance and education. As part of the aging and disability network (adrn), during fy25, the organization served 13,916 people through this program, which provided 48,105 units of service.
$835,045 spent$12,434 earned by the program17% of program spendingTitle iii e, under the older americans act, as a caregiver resource center (crc), the organization provides essential support to family caregivers through case management, education, counseling, respite services, and access to community resources, helping caregivers maintain their well-being while continuing to care for older adults, individuals with dementia and grandparentsraising grandchildren. During fy25, the organization served 666 people in this program resulting in 14,628 units of service.
$717,231 spent$7,949 earned by the program14% of program spendingVarious other programs for older adults, including in-home services, home delivered meals, information assistance and referrals and caregiver and caregiver respite services.
$1,292,949 spentof which $427,887 as grants$113,481 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,998,704.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $3.9M to $4.3M (+11%).
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 92% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 91% · 2024 88% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Elaine Kiely-Grande
Executive director
Board chair
Steve Pappageorge
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $989k → $1.7M.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES’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
PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
100% 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 PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 94% · 2019 96% · 2020 89% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 95% — 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
50% of PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
100% of PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127 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.
Government funding PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$100k
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 PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES: 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 PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES?
- PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,855,956 to it, the largest being AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) ($12,219,707). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $12,855,956 in grants to PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES?
- AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) is the largest funder on record, with $12,219,707 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATHLIGHTS HUMAN SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2025), 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