College Pathways of the Triad
Legal name: College Pathways of the Triad Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882392657
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Greensboro, NC, USA
- Phone
- 5136028155
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,421
- Expenses
- $131,487
- Assets
- $70,346
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chris Larson (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Erin Pellarin (Board Member)
- Rolisa Tutwyler (Board Member and Secretary)
- Dayna Carr (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe high-caliber college advising should be available to all students, regardless of income or background. We provide a completely free comprehensive college access program including admissions advising, standardized test preparation, financial aid counseling, and ongoing mentoring and support.
What it reported doing in 2025
Comprehensive college counseling for class of 2025 (25 students) and class of 2026 (45 students), including both individual and group sessions focused on helping students find colleges where they will thrive. Includes support in college search, application and essay preparation, scholarship and financial aid applications, and holistic preparation for college success. The class of 2025 earned 129 college acceptances to 49 different colleges. The class of 2026 earned 192 college acceptances to 67 different colleges.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 65.5%; rating input score 65
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 93.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 65.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.