Urban Pathways
Legal name: Urban Pathways Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132933675
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 212.736.7385
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $49,366,119
- Expenses
- $51,409,530
- Assets
- $60,378,486
- Liabilities
- $44,737,722
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ADAM HEFT (PRESIDENT)
- ERIN ABRAMS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- FREDERICK SHACK (CEO)
- LISA LOMBARDI (DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- FREDERICK SHACK (CEO): $326,571 total reported compensation
- MARTA GOLDMAN (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $253,593 total reported compensation
- ROBERT MCPHILLIPS (CFO): $247,484 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Combatting homelessness through housing and support services while advocating for systemic change. Working at Urban Pathways means you’ll be building a meaningful career while helping to create a New York where everyone has a place to call home. We’re dedicated to promoting a dynamic and supportive environment that reflects the needs of our diverse workforce. We offer traditional and signature benefits, generous paid time off, and other resources to help promote balance. Search our career paths now to join our mission! See Our Open Positions Urban Pathways team rally for Just Pay.
What it reported doing in 2024
The residential programs, consisting of temporary congregant or shared apartment living, served over 793 clients. Over 47,713 meals were served and 21 individuals were placed in permanent housing or other transitional housing facilities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $45.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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; 66th 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: -4.1%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.74; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 81% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $41.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $327K · 29 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $404K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 filed related-organization links
- 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 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.