Minnesota · Nonprofit
PATHWAYS NORTH
PATHWAYS NORTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,468 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($200,550). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $739k
- Net assets
- $876k
What Pathways North does
Mission
The mission of Pathways North is to provide resources and services to help people explore complementary healing approaches for resilience and mental/emotional wellbeing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The joy lab program is an evidence-based mental health intervention. Participants engage with monthly topics grounded in cbt, positive psychology, and the science of mindfulness. The intervention aims to improve wellbeing and reduce self-reported symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression. The program is delivered alongside the freely available joy lab podcast, which extends program content to a broader public audience at no cost. The podcast served thousands of individuals and was downloaded over 70,000 times during the fiscal year.
$276,461 spent$2,432 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $276,461.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $601k to $1.1M (+87%).
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: 2020 17% · 2021 30% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of PATHWAYS NORTH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $147k → $57k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 NORTH’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 NORTH 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
76% 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 NORTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 31% · 2019 29% · 2020 24% · 2021 26% · 2022 22% · 2023 26% — 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
64% of PATHWAYS NORTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
68% of PATHWAYS NORTH'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 $240k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $499k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 NORTH's revenue fell 73% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PATHWAYS NORTH
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 NORTH: 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 NORTH?
- PATHWAYS NORTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,468 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($200,550). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PATHWAYS NORTH have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $739,468 in grants to PATHWAYS NORTH, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATHWAYS NORTH?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATHWAYS NORTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 17 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