Path
Overview
Mission
PATH is ending homelessness for individuals, families, and communities by building affordable housing and providing supportive services throughout California. For more than 40 years, PATH has provided homeless services and developed and managed affordable, supportive, and interim housing communities across California, including in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, and Santa Clara counties. Today, PATH operates more than 100 service locations statewide and provides interim housing and supportive services that help individuals and families move from homelessness to housing and long-term stability. our mission, vision, and values Our mission is to end homelessness for individuals, families, and communities. PATH envisions a world where every person has a home. Our values include creative collaborations, strategic leadership, empowerment for all, and pa.
What it reported doing in 2024
Permanent supportive housing: path provides long-term rental subsidies and intensive case management services (icms) to individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness and live with disabilities, chronic medical conditions, and/or behavioral health conditions. These services may include licensed board and care placements, adult residential facilities, or residential care facilities for older adults.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953950196
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3236442200
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Centers
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $91.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 84%; rating input score 84; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87.6% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $153.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $451K · 30 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.9M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 13 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER HARK DIETZ (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $451,055 total reported compensation
- SARAH KOLISH (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $346,031 total reported compensation
- SANDRA OLUWEK (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $318,671 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.