How much does Sacramento Steps Forward give?

Sacramento Steps Forward reported 9 grants totaling $14,469,254 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Sacramento Steps Forward fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (100%), Human Services (0%).

Who are Sacramento Steps Forward's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lutheran Social Services of Northern California ($22M), Goodwill Industries Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada Inc ($18M), Volunteers of America Northern California and Northern Nevada Inc ($18M).

Does Sacramento Steps Forward fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Sacramento Steps Forward?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services.

Where is Sacramento Steps Forward based?

Sacramento Steps Forward is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Sacramento Steps Forward

The Organization's mission is to ensure that individuals and families experiencing homelessness or the risk of homelessness are able to access housing services and resources on their path to economic stability. The Organization is the lead agency for the Sacramento Homeless Continuum of Care and administers and oversees grants for…

$14M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 9
Grants FY2024: 8
Organizations funded FY2023: 25%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $303,587
Largest grant, FY2024: $4,666,931
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 13; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $24M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Sacramento Steps Forward funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEmploymentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	9	$14M	33%
FY2023	8	$12M	25%
FY2022	6	$13M	0%
FY2021	7	$12M	29%
FY2020	13	$13M	62%
FY2019	7	$23M	14%
FY2018	7	$11M	0%
FY2017	7	$10M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$109MHuman Services$28k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lutheran Social Services of Northern California	$21,756,604	8	24%
Goodwill Industries Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada Inc	$18,398,211	5	5%
Volunteers of America Northern California and Northern Nevada Inc	$18,273,018	7	11%
Sacramento Self-Help Housing Inc	$14,846,872	7	36%
City of Sacramento	$13,253,482	2	n/a
Next Move Homeless Services	$10,694,723	3	n/a
Shelter Inc	$4,894,808	2	21%
Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc	$2,519,416	8	47%
Wind Youth Services Inc	$1,297,384	3	n/a
County of Sacramento Voter Registration and Elections	$883,737	1	n/a

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All grantees of Sacramento Steps Forward by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lutheran Social Services of Northern California	$21,756,604	8	24%
Goodwill Industries Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada Inc	$18,398,211	5	5%
Volunteers of America Northern California and Northern Nevada Inc	$18,273,018	7	11%
Sacramento Self-Help Housing Inc	$14,846,872	7	36%
City of Sacramento	$13,253,482	2	n/a
Next Move Homeless Services	$10,694,723	3	n/a
Shelter Inc	$4,894,808	2	21%
Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc	$2,519,416	8	47%
Wind Youth Services Inc	$1,297,384	3	n/a
County of Sacramento Voter Registration and Elections	$883,737	1	n/a
My Sisters House	$797,015	4	13%
Lao Family Community Development Inc	$466,100	2	1%
Mercy Housing Inc	$183,304	2	1%
Sacramento Loaves & Fishes	$115,600	1	1%
Waking the Village	$107,979	1	2%
Bridging Initiatives International	$51,651	1	37%
Community Link Capital Region	$41,831	1	1%
Feed Sacramento Homeless	$28,311	1	78%
United Methodist Church and Its Affiliated Organizations	$10,000	1	n/a
His Well	$9,270	1	n/a
Packsforcoldbacks Inc	$8,500	1	n/a
Carmichael HART (Homeless Assistance Resource Team)	$5,500	1	10%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($476k), not named here.

Sacramento Steps Forward supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA27.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Dignity Health · Sutter Valley Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Teichert Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · The California Endowment · Shelter Providers of Sacramento Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

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About Sacramento Steps Forward

How much does Sacramento Steps Forward give?: Sacramento Steps Forward reported 9 grants totaling $14,469,254 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sacramento Steps Forward fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (100%), Human Services (0%).
Who are Sacramento Steps Forward's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lutheran Social Services of Northern California ($22M), Goodwill Industries Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada Inc ($18M), Volunteers of America Northern California and Northern Nevada Inc ($18M).
Does Sacramento Steps Forward fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sacramento Steps Forward?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services.
Where is Sacramento Steps Forward based?: Sacramento Steps Forward is based in CA.