Paving The Way Foundation
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to enable of all walks of life to be as healthy and active as possible by assisting them in maintaining the highest quality of life.
What it reported doing in 2024
CFCI. We help Justice Impacted clients with housing, food, clothing, and personal care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 96% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010852709
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Lancaster, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6615224143
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.45; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 annual filings from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Janie Hodge (Director): $109,879 total reported compensation
- Christine Lara (officer): $105,505 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.