Paths and Gateways Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881613204
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,914
- Expenses
- $56,866
- Assets
- $3,987
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Damion Baker (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Damion Baker (Executive Director)
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
Paths & Gateways Inc. is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to improve educational opportunities and quality of life for underserved children families and communities with a primary focus on rural Jamaica. During the year the organization provided financial assistance and grants to schools supported nutrition programs distributed school supplies and educational materials funded technology and internet access assisted with school infrastructure and hurricane recovery efforts and promoted community development initiatives. The organization also served as a fiscal sponsor for charitable projects that furthered its exempt purposes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Paths & Gateways Inc. improved educational opportunities and quality of life for children and families in rural Jamaica through school-based charitable programs and community development initiatives. During the fiscal year the organization provided financial support to Merrywood Primary School White Hill Primary School Retirement Primary School and other community partners for nutrition programs educational supplies school infrastructure improvements technology and internet connectivity. The organization also supported hurricane recovery and school restoration projects following Hurricane Melissa assisted with literacy and educational initiatives and provided grants and direct program assistance to underserved communities. In addition Paths & Gateways served as a fiscal sponsor for charitable projects that furthered its exempt purposes. Through these initiatives the organization expanded access to education strengthened school resources and improved learning opportunities for students in underserved rural communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 70.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 59.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.