Arizona · Nonprofit
POSITIVE PATHS
POSITIVE PATHS (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,907 to it, the largest being RUDGE FOUNDATION ($102,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $249k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $186k
- Net assets
- $520k
What Positive Paths does
Mission
The organization supports east valley women in need by providing life-bridge to economic stability, personal growth and professional achievement. This is done through mentorship programs, scholarships and supportive services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since the fall of 2014, the organization has awarded over 150 east valley women the opportunity to get an education by awarding them an educational scholarship. Each of these women has worked hard to overcome lifes traumatic obstacles and is determined to improve their lives, and that of their children, through an education. These women are committed to achieving a degree that will enhance their career and provide for a sustainable life. Each woman is assigned a successful, professional mentor. These mentors provide encouragement and support to these women. In fact, for most of them, it is the first time anyone believed in them and showed them any support in their lifetime. Each recipient must maintain a 2.5 gpa and provide proof of their grades and progression towards their degree. The scholarship committee evaluates the progress before any additional money is approved. The maximum amount that is generally allocated is $8,000 per recipient.
$156,163 spentof which $74,800 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $156,163.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $352k to $444k (+26%).
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.
84% of POSITIVE PATHS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $27k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $49k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dignity Health). These are real filings, and they are not money POSITIVE PATHS raised.
From the IRS filings of POSITIVE PATHS’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
POSITIVE PATHS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 POSITIVE PATHS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 50% · 2022 49% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of POSITIVE PATHS's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
POSITIVE PATHS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like POSITIVE PATHS
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POSITIVE PATHS: 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 POSITIVE PATHS?
- POSITIVE PATHS (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,907 to it, the largest being RUDGE FOUNDATION ($102,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POSITIVE PATHS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $185,907 in grants to POSITIVE PATHS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POSITIVE PATHS?
- RUDGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $102,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POSITIVE PATHS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 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