Pathways Center

Analysis

Pathways Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending August 2023, Pathways Center reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.3m, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.1m (+5.7%), an average of +1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Pathways Center sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include John W Brick Mental Health Foundation Inc ($1.1m), Smiles Across Montana LLC ($1.1m) and Foundation for Biomedical Research ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 1.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $640k. At year end it held assets of $907k against liabilities of $54k, net assets of $854k.

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.