California · Nonprofit
PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE
PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,122,142 to it, the largest being IGNITE CULTURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Pathways to Independence does
Mission
To transform the lives of disadvantaged single young women through education, therapy, mentoring, housing, and healthcare, to break the cycle of poverty and abuse.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Pathways to Independence provides support to single women ages 18-35, with no dependents, from disadvantaged backgrounds who are pursuing higher education. Through education assistance, therapy, mentoring, housing, and healthcareservices, pathways empowers women to achieve self-sufficiency and build brighterfutures.pathways owns and operates three residential buildings in huntington beach, known as thedunbar residences, which provide housing for up to 31 clients. These properties are owned freeand clear of all encumbrances and offer a safe, stable, and peaceful living environment thatsupports residents as they pursue their educational and personal goals.in 2025, pathways served 45 women, with 40 active clients enrolled in the program at year-end. Since its founding, pathways has served a total of 498 women, helping them overcome barriersand create lasting change in their lives and communities.
$1,983,580 spentof which $535,593 as grants$607,265 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,983,580.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.8M to $6.1M (+5%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Diana Hill
Executive director
Board chair
Lindsey Mais
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $99k → $778k.
12 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 TO INDEPENDENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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 TO INDEPENDENCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
42% 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 TO INDEPENDENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 32% · 2019 47% · 2020 38% · 2021 56% · 2022 46% · 2023 39% — 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
57% of PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
97% of PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 TO INDEPENDENCE: 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 TO INDEPENDENCE?
- PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,122,142 to it, the largest being IGNITE CULTURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,122,142 in grants to PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE?
- IGNITE CULTURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47 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