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PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC

PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,902,836 to it, the largest being THE CLAUDE AND BETTY HARRIS FOUNDATION INC ($510,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$1.5M
13/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What Pathway to Freedom Inc does

Mission

Pathway to freedom, inc. Provides a unique, christ-centered holistic service program that provides educational, values-based, pre-release and post release services to prisoners on a voluntary and non-compulsory basis, while preparing them to reintegrate into society and become productive citizens through the use of new and improved pro-social and life skills that will enhance family and social relationships, moral and spiritual development,and employment opportunities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Pre-release and post-release, transformational program for prisoners enabling offenders to become contributing members of society.

    $292,030 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $292,030.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($400k) Expenses 100 ($506k) Net assets -19 ($-17856)2019 Revenue 159 ($636k) Expenses 104 ($525k) Net assets 100 ($94k)2020 Revenue 134 ($538k) Expenses 103 ($521k) Net assets 118 ($111k)2021 Revenue 131 ($523k) Expenses 105 ($530k) Net assets 111 ($104k)2022 Revenue 206 ($824k) Expenses 111 ($560k) Net assets 353 ($331k)2023 Revenue 252 ($1.0M) Expenses 117 ($590k) Net assets 824 ($773k)2024 Revenue 201 ($806k) Expenses 120 ($608k) Net assets 1104 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 284 ($1.1M) Expenses 143 ($724k) Net assets 1613 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (284)Expenses (143)Net assets (1613)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+46%).

$63k
$128k
$159k
$126k
$348k
$800k
$1.1M
$1.5M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$106k
’18
$112k
’19
$17k
’20
−$7k
’21
$263k
’22
$419k
’23
$198k
’24
$411k
’25
24
months of
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.

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Listed912121213121110
Joined·+3+0+2+1+1+1+0
No longer listed·0020221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $104k → $541k.

7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC’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

PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

52% 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 PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC.

27%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 37% · 2019 41% · 2020 49% · 2021 44% · 2022 44% · 2023 28% — 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

67% of PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 6 states in all.

WA
KY
AZ
AR
MS
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $902k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve24.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC

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 Arkansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

40% of spending goes to programs.

Program 40%Management 38%Fundraising 22%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

68%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AR

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Questions and answers

Who funds PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC?
PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,902,836 to it, the largest being THE CLAUDE AND BETTY HARRIS FOUNDATION INC ($510,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,902,836 in grants to PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC?
THE CLAUDE AND BETTY HARRIS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $510,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PATHWAY TO FREEDOM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 19 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