California · Nonprofit
Pathways LA
Pathways LA (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,411 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($198,712). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $656k
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Pathways LA does
Mission
Pathways LA strengthens low-income and vulnerable working families, promotes high quality early care and education services for children of all abilities, develops knowledgeable early care providers, and promotes economically resilient communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child Care Financial Assistance: Provides childcare subsidies to low-income working families. The program also provides childcare for children in the foster care system and homeless families. The West Hollywood Preschool: Provides free and reduced-cost early care and education to preschoolers, ages 2.5-5 years old, preparing them for successful entry into kindergarten classrooms. The Pathways LA Child Development Center: Provides free and reduced-cost early care and education, as well as private-pay options, for children 6 weeks to 5 years old, preparing them for successful entry into kindergarten classrooms. Enrolled 5,489 children in partial or fully subsidized childcare services. 75% of families served are single-parent households. More than 10 languages are spoken by the families.
$58,848,109 spent$392,775 earned by the program96% of program spendingOther programs include Quality Start Los Angeles (QSLA) provider coaching, Family Child Care Home Education Network provider coaching program, Emergency Foster Care Bridge Program, Trauma Informed Care Training & Coaching services, Family Engagement, and the Books, Bikes, & Full Bellies Campaign.See Schedule O for further details.
$1,582,850 spent3% of program spendingChild Care Resource & Referrals: Providing referrals to licensed childcare providers for all families in our community.Child Care Provider Resources: Offering training and technical assistance services to help new and existing childcare providers obtain licenses, improve their learning environments, include children with special needs, and advance their childcare business.* Pathways LA had over 45,199 calls requesting services.* Pathways LA trained 1,544 childcare providers.* Pathways LA provided 125 developmental trainings in English and Spanish.* Pathways LA provided 97 training courses on technical assistance for early childhood educators.
$668,338 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $61,099,297.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $19M (+28%).
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 96% · 2018 97% · 2019 94% · 2020 92% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Pathways LA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Tamika Farr
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $165k → $50k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 LA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 15 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 LA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
70% 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 LA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
11% of Pathways LA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% 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
88% of Pathways LA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $314k 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.
Against its field
Pathways LA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Pathways LA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Pathways LA: 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 LA?
- Pathways LA (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,411 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($198,712). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pathways LA have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $656,411 in grants to Pathways LA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pathways LA?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $198,712 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pathways LA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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