Alabama · Nonprofit
PATHWAYS INC
PATHWAYS INC (Alabama) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,867,543 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($2,591,683). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Pathways Inc does
Mission
Empowering women and children on their path out of homelessness through hospitality, housing, and hope.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Day center: the day center provides for the basic needs of any homeless woman or child who visits the center. This includes meals, showers, laundry facilities, clothing, hygiene products, and other items and services needed by those living on the streets or in emergency shelters.
$195,406 spentof which $19,526 as grants18% of program spendingSafe haven: safe haven is a residential program for homeless women with a serious mental illness diagnosis. Residents live in a home-like environment where they receive supportive services to help them achieve a better quality of life.
$265,646 spentof which $26,544 as grants$22,154 earned by the program24% of program spendingStepping stones: stepping stones provides homeless women and women with children with shelter for up to nine months while offering supportive services designed to assist them in achieving permanent housing and economic stability.
$264,863 spentof which $26,466 as grants24% of program spendingEarly learning development center: elc provides free, trauma-informed early childhood care to children ages 8 weeks to 5 years old whose families are experiencing homelessness.
$378,323 spentof which $38,069 as grants34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,104,238.
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 $965k to $1.5M (+51%).
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: 2017 46% · 2018 37% · 2020 49% · 2021 51% · 2022 54% · 2023 36% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of PATHWAYS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Jennifer Sumner
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Mccormick Drph Mph
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $385k → $548k.
6 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 82% · 2019 78% · 2020 78% · 2021 54% · 2022 53% · 2023 57% — 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
58% of PATHWAYS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $179k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PATHWAYS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.3M
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 PATHWAYS 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PATHWAYS INC: 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 PATHWAYS INC?
- PATHWAYS INC (Alabama) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,867,543 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($2,591,683). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PATHWAYS INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $3,867,543 in grants to PATHWAYS INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATHWAYS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,591,683 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATHWAYS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 36 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