Pathways To Learning

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611815606
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Phone
4802206588
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$120
Expenses
$110,954
Assets
$208,282
Liabilities
$247,817

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gavven Ruddy (President)

People named in this filing

  • Gavven Ruddy (President)
  • Aram Chavez (Director)
  • Jeremy Babendure (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

To provide opportunities to explore the natural world giving outdoor experiences that will sustain and enrich physical and mental well-being throughout each youth's lives and to help inspire and motivate them.

What it reported doing in 2025

Completing another year of accomplishments, we successfully partnered with T.R.A.C. (a nonprofit helping foster and adoptive children) to develop and deliver foster and adoptive childrens camps. Offered at Pathways affiliated camp property, Tonto Creek Camp, these impactful, resilience-building camps included challenge course activities, archery, assisted learning, and other fun activities. In addition, we hosted camps helping children with family members affected by cancer and provided sessions to help children deal with trauma impacted by cancer. We also hosted camps serving families affected by blood disorders. Our Mobile STEM Discovery Lab learning platform continued to bring hands-on STEM enrichment instruction into a wide variety of schools, including Title I schools, throughout the state, augmented by our robust STEM school activities for children.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -92,361.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.19; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $89K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.