Pathways Homeschool Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922651220
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brea, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5629779322
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $221,827
- Expenses
- $207,926
- Assets
- $79,763
- Liabilities
- $37,661
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOLENE DENHAM (President)
Highest reported compensation
- JOLENE DENHAM (President): $21,326 total reported compensation
- RANDI DANA (Secretary): $10,781 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pathways Homeschool Program assists families who want their children to love God, and love learning. The Program provides the necessary tools to families that home school in order to help students excel in their education. Home schooled children get the best of both worlds. They have the opportunity to do school at home with family and also have the available technical support of a classroom teacher.
What it reported doing in 2025
Families receive a structured monthly lesson plan. The Program provides technical education support and tutoring services to families that home school. Pathways Home School Program is not a charter school or a private school program. No files are kept and no transcripts are issued to students. Families are required to report to an umbrella school or file their own Private School Affidavit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 39.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $166K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $21K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.