Texas · Nonprofit
Pathways for Little Feet
Pathways for Little Feet (Texas) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,785,828 to it, the largest being KERR & JILL TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION ($620,014). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $890k
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Pathways for Little Feet does
Mission
Our mission is to reduce financial barriers to adoption and foster care through financial assistance and ongoing family support. Pathways provides interest free loans with tailored payment plans so families can move forward with their adoption process. Pathways also assists with ongoing support resources such as counseling referrals and assistance with the cost of counseling and adoption or foster-related conferences and retreats.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pathways provides adoption assistance in order to defray adoption costs. The perpetual family fund loan program provides interest free loans to families. As families pay back their loans, those funds are restricted for the purpose of new adoptions. Since 2008, pathways has assisted in bringing home more than 650 children. Pathways has provided more than $4.2 million to families through interest-free loans. Pathways funded 31 adoption loans during 2023, totaling $303,000. The adoption grants program launched in late 2021. This program provides grants to defray adoptions costs in instances where families are unable to reach the final financial goals needed to adopt a child.
$294,686 spentof which $28,000 as grants$16,575 earned by the program76% of program spendingPathways provides financial support for families, adult adoptees, and birth parents who have a need for trauma-informed and adoption-competent counseling and therapy. In 2023, 6 families received post adoption support counseling and therapy grants.
$79,940 spentof which $79,940 as grants21% of program spendingFarms for little feet launched in 2017, in partnership with lifesong for orphans (lifesong), and provides training and care to children who are aging out of traditional orphan care programs. We support those preparing for adulthood through a berry farm in ukraine by supplying the land, a refrigerated truck, and humanitarian relief during crisis through a nearly $400k investment.
The andrew project's goal is to support children and families in foster care, as well as supporting targeted orphan care initiatives. The andrew project began in 2021. In 2023, the andrew project provided financial assistance as foster parents, children in foster care, kinship placements, and others on their preservation journey receive trauma-competent counseling and parent coaching on their road to growth and healing.
$10,753 spentof which $10,753 as grants3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,520 spentof which $1,520 as grants0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $386,899.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $1.9M (+17%).
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: 2021 10% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of Pathways for Little Feet’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Kerr Taylor
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $153k → $478k.
9 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Pathways for Little Feet’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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
Pathways for Little Feet has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 36% · 2019 30% · 2020 29% · 2021 18% · 2022 28% · 2023 15% — 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
48% of Pathways for Little Feet's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
95% of Pathways for Little Feet's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $529k 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.
Against its field
Pathways for Little Feet holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Pathways for Little Feet
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Pathways for Little Feet?
- Pathways for Little Feet (Texas) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,785,828 to it, the largest being KERR & JILL TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION ($620,014). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pathways for Little Feet have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $2,785,828 in grants to Pathways for Little Feet, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pathways for Little Feet?
- KERR & JILL TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $620,014 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pathways for Little Feet find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing