Pathways, Inc.

Legal name: Pathways Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
161089007
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Horseheads, NY, USA
Phone
1-800-836-5678
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Group Homes

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$38,829,786
Expenses
$36,340,643
Assets
$39,726,339
Liabilities
$6,224,400

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOSEPH CEVETTE (PRESIDENT/CEO)
  • ERIN WARR (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNITY AND HABILITATI)
  • OLIVIA SHERMAN (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, RESIDENTIAL SERVICES)
  • ANGELA LONGWELL (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CARE COORDINATION AND CO)
  • ROD NOEL (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CLINICAL SERVICES)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOSEPH CEVETTE (PRESIDENT/CEO): $341,048 total reported compensation
  • JOHN SIMONDS (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $231,101 total reported compensation
  • SHANNON MATTESON (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $172,194 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, Inc. provides children, adults, and families with specialized programs and services in intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health, family support, traumatic brain injury, nursing home alternatives, home care services, care coordination.

What it reported doing in 2025

Residential services - agency residential program options offer a variety of 24-hour supervised home settings for children with severe emotional and behavioral difficulties and for adults with developmental disabilities including 5 individual residential alternative (ira) homes, 3 intermediate care facility (icf) residences, and 2 community residences for children and youth ages 5-17.the agency also serves youth in custody of the department of social services (dss) who have serious emotional or behavioral difficulties and/or developmental disabilities in need of a therapeutic out-of-home placement. Through placement with a resource (foster) parent, the program provides a local home to keep children and youth in their community. Steuben county dept. Of social services collaborative programs serve children who are at imminent risk of out-of-home placement and their families and require referral from steuben county dss.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 81% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $31.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $341K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.