Project Pathfinder Inc

Analysis

Project Pathfinder Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Paul, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Project Pathfinder Inc reported income of $2.0m and spending of $2.2m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.3m to $2.0m (-9.6%), an average of -2.5% a year. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Project Pathfinder Inc sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Epic Medical Services PC ($2.0m), Salt Lake Urban Search & Rescue Task Force ($2.0m) and Workers Compensation Institute Inc ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.2% and program service revenue 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $787k (36% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $426k. At year end it held assets of $421k against liabilities of $819k, net assets of -$399k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.