Pathways for Exceptional Children Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050547509
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Montville, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2019271595
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,019
- Expenses
- $46,035
- Assets
- $330,970
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melinda Jennis (President)
- Anna Chianese (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Rich Miseo (Board Member)
- Pam Ciccarino (Board Member)
- Fernando Iamurri (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
Using a children teaching children model, we empower children of all abilities ages 3-21 to discover their passions, develop their strengths, and build the skills, not only to achieve their greatest potential and independence, but most importantly, a sense of value and belonging.
What it reported doing in 2025
Acceptance and Awareness and Speaking Engagements
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.7%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.8%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.19; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.7% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.