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Giant Steps Community Programs Inc

Giant steps community programs, inc's mission is to help adults with special needs or developmental disability achieve independence and self-sufficiency.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$48kEmployment$16kHuman Services$12kHealth$9kEducation$2kHousing & Shelter$1kRecreation & Sports$825
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $44,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $51,896 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,996 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$14,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,650
GOODWILL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$14,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL$10,250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $28k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $21k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 3 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$59k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2024–2025 · $48k · revenue +3%
  • EF
    EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue -26%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • GC
    GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +62%
  • SU CASA - ENDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -47%
  • HO
    HOME OWNERSHIP MADE EASY
    one grant, 2020 · $840 · revenue +17%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan Inc

Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.

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2
Goodwill Industries of the Valley Works

Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.

Human Services
3
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
7
Goodwill Industries of the Valleys Inc

Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.

Employment
8
St Vincent Depaul Rehabilitation Service of Texas Inc

Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

Employment
9
Abilitypath Housing

Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…

Human Services
10
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
11
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
12
Executive Service Corps of Southern California

The organization's mission is to strengthen southern california nonprofits by providing accessible coaching and consulting that helps them fulfill their missions and drive progress in their communities.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Industries of Southern California; the most unlike its peers is Home Ownership Made Easy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $48,150 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Br…GOODWILL RETAIL SERVICES: $14,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL RETAIL SERV…GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,240 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES …SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $10,250 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST V…SU CASA - ENDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $1,833 · OtherSU CASA - ENDIN…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $9,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FO…GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $1,957 · EducationHOME OWNERSHIP MADE EASY: $840 · Housing & ShelterLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $178 · Housing & ShelterSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $825 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$48,150Employment$16,240Other$12,083Health$9,000Education$1,957Housing & Shelter$1,018Recreation & Sports$825

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $48,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,240 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $1,957 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSU CASA - ENDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $1,833 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOME OWNERSHIP MADE EASY: $840 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $825 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $178 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Giant Steps Community Programs Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Giant Steps Community Programs Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Giant Steps Community Programs Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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