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PATHWAYS HIGH INC

PATHWAYS HIGH INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $753,180 to it, the largest being CEDAR STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($569,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.3M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$753k
Net assets
$1.8M
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Pathways High Inc does

Mission

To unleash all learners' potential. Now.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Pathways high school is a charter school that provides diverse students with a learner focused, innovative structure for academic and holistic success thru the implementation of a project-based learning model.

    $1,555,035 spent$20,035 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,555,035.

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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($110k)2019 Revenue 120 ($1.3M) Expenses 107 ($1.1M) Net assets 262 ($287k)2020 Revenue 172 ($1.8M) Expenses 147 ($1.5M) Net assets 551 ($604k)2021 Revenue 162 ($1.7M) Expenses 169 ($1.7M) Net assets 571 ($627k)2022 Revenue 195 ($2.1M) Expenses 179 ($1.8M) Net assets 786 ($862k)2023 Revenue 220 ($2.3M) Expenses 219 ($2.3M) Net assets 877 ($962k)2024 Revenue 263 ($2.8M) Expenses 224 ($2.3M) Net assets 1338 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 215 ($2.3M) Expenses 194 ($2.0M) Net assets 1614 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (215)Expenses (194)Net assets (1614)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 2019 to 2020, from $377k to $1.2M (+225%).

$201k
$377k
$1.2M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.4M
$2.7M
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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: 2018 69% · 2019 83% · 2020 81% · 2021 92% · 2022 87% · 2023 85% · 2024 89% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of PATHWAYS HIGH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’18
$178k
’19
$317k
’20
−$9k
’21
$235k
’22
$89k
’23
$506k
’24
$303k
’25
5.2
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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Listed111111101011109
Joined·+3+1+0+0+3+2+1
No longer listed·3110232
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $110k → $93k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 HIGH 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

PATHWAYS HIGH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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 PATHWAYS HIGH INC.

76%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 66% · 2021 71% · 2022 57% · 2023 56% — 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

75% of PATHWAYS HIGH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

79% of PATHWAYS HIGH INC'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 $158k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $595k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PATHWAYS HIGH INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve5.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PATHWAYS HIGH INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds PATHWAYS HIGH INC?
PATHWAYS HIGH INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $753,180 to it, the largest being CEDAR STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($569,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PATHWAYS HIGH INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $753,180 in grants to PATHWAYS HIGH INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PATHWAYS HIGH INC?
CEDAR STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $569,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PATHWAYS HIGH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 13 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