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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET.

Totals

Total revenue
$889,506
Total expenses
$807,030
Contributions and grants received
$915,964
Grants paid
$187,964
Program service revenue
$27,809
Investment income
$20,331
Other revenue
-$74,598
Total assets, end of year
$1,973,103
Total liabilities, end of year
$22,643
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,950,460
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$485,417
Management and general expenses
$192,614
Fundraising expenses
$128,999
Program service expenses (Part III)
$485,417

Program services were 60.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $481,561

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $0

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $434,403

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $51,588

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Imputed Loan Interest

    total $27,809 · related or exempt $27,809 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2b · Program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2c · Program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2d · Program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2e · Program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $20,331 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $20,331

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $13,800

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $481,561

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $88,398

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$74,598 · unrelated business $0 · excluded -$74,598

  • 9a · Gaming: gross income

    $0

  • 9b · Gaming: direct expenses

    $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $0

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11a · Other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11b · Other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11c · Other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $187,964 · program services $187,964

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $127,000 · program services $62,344 · management and general $33,681 · fundraising $30,975

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $219,815 · program services $107,907 · management and general $58,295 · fundraising $53,613

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $7,676 · program services $3,768 · management and general $2,036 · fundraising $1,872

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $22,305 · program services $10,950 · management and general $5,915 · fundraising $5,440

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $26,327 · program services $12,924 · management and general $6,982 · fundraising $6,421

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $51,777 · program services $0 · management and general $51,777 · fundraising $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $15,313 · program services $8,769 · management and general $2,786 · fundraising $3,758

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $26,147 · program services $20,102 · management and general $1,858 · fundraising $4,187

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $27,620 · program services $9,153 · management and general $13,518 · fundraising $4,949

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $6,212 · program services $3,050 · management and general $1,647 · fundraising $1,515

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $34,067 · program services $16,723 · management and general $9,035 · fundraising $8,309

  • 17 · Travel

    total $7,301 · program services $3,107 · management and general $1,678 · fundraising $2,516

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $444 · program services $0 · management and general $444 · fundraising $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $29,892 · program services $29,892 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $8,533 · program services $4,189 · management and general $2,263 · fundraising $2,081

  • 24a · Other expenses: Printing and postage

    total $452 · program services $0 · management and general $452 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Family resources and supplies

    total $2,708 · program services $2,708 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24d · Other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $5,477 · program services $1,867 · management and general $247 · fundraising $3,363

  • 26 · Joint costs (an allocation of the lines above)

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $460,797 · end of year $485,244

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $715,043 · end of year $655,346

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $9,100

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $3,334 · end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $0

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $435,209 · end of year $528,913

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $14,500

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $280,000 · end of year $280,000

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $15,037 · end of year $22,643

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $916,300 · end of year $1,022,544

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $963,046 · end of year $927,916

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Our mission is to reduce financial barriers to adoption and foster care through financial assistance and ongoing family support. Pathways provides interest free loans with tailored payment plans so families can move forward with their adoption process. Pathways also assists with ongoing support resources such as counseling referrals and assistance with the cost of counseling and adoption or foster-related conferences and retreats.

  • Pathways offers adoption assistance to reduce adoption expenses. Since 2008 Pathways has granted $4.2 million in loans facilitating over 750 childrens adoptions. The Perpetual Family Fund Loan Program provides interest-free loans to adoptive families. Repaid loans are earmarked for new adoption loans. In 2024 Pathways issued 42 new loans totaling $425,750. As families repay the loans program expenses exclude the initial loan amounts considered assets. Besides loans Pathways offers adoption grants to aid families unable to meet adoption costs. In 2024 $75,281 in grants supported 22 families. Although interest-free accounting rules necessitate recording imputed interest revenue based on prevailing market rates affecting the total loan value discount. In 2024 imputed interest amounted to $27,809.

    Expenses $229,399 · Grants $75,281 · Revenue $27,809

  • Pathways provides family support resources and financial support for families adult adoptees and birth parents who have a need for trauma-informed and adoption-competent counseling and therapy. In 2024 58 families received post-adoption or foster care support counseling and therapy grants totaling $104,965. Additionally 27 families were assisted with a total of $7,718 toward the cost of conferences and retreats specific to foster and or adoption issues. Note that in prior years the foster care program was viewed as a separate program but in 2024 it was included under the overall program "umbrella" of Family Support which provides resources to both adoptive and foster families. This is simply a reporting change; no significant changes were made in how this program was conducted.

    Expenses $256,018 · Grants $112,683

  • Farms for Little Feet launched in 2017 in partnership with Lifesong for Orphans Lifesong and provides training and care to children who are aging out of traditional orphan care programs. We support those preparing for adulthood through a berry farm in Ukraine by supplying the land a refrigerated truck and humanitarian relief during crisis through a nearly $400K investment. Although no new expenses were incurred for this program in 2024 the land and equipment investments are still in place and the farm is continuing its operations which provide ongoing orphan support.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Eric Fridge

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $115,886
    From this org
    $115,886
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kerr Taylor

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jill Taylor

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Eric Thomas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jane Painter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Sullivan III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rob Casper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chad Braun

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William Stubbs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas Zenner

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
12 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.1
Source object
202513169349303876

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