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PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET

EIN 26-1073326 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024
$889,506
Expenses 2024
$807,030

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P60
Classification
1000
Street
1885 SAINT JAMES PLACE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

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.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $889,506
    Expenses
    $807,030
    Contributions
    $915,964
    Grants paid
    $187,964
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $770,457
    Expenses
    $727,001
    Contributions
    $824,347
    Grants paid
    $120,213
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $600,421
    Expenses
    $687,894
    Contributions
    $607,622
    Grants paid
    $161,145

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $673,642
    Expenses
    $347,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,927,282

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $354,410
    Expenses
    $327,605
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,647,445

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $520,999
    Expenses
    $479,101
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,570,886

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $558,846
    Expenses
    $380,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,547,901

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $585,634
    Expenses
    $417,398
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,508,020

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $443,512
    Expenses
    $644,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,215,597

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,387
    Expenses
    $434,914
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,375,100

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $376,776
    Expenses
    $337,004
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,468,679

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $332,324
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,236,608

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $168,064
    Assets (EOY)
    $968,461

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.