· Private foundation
Steps Ahead Charitable Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $457k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Policy Roundtable | $1,650,000 |
| First Liberty | $500,000 |
| Maxwell Leadership Foundation | $250,000 |
| Choose Life Radio Network | $107,000 |
| Compass North Church | $100,000 |
| Highlands College | $100,000 |
| United in Purpose | $50,000 |
| Harvest Christian Fellowship | $50,000 |
| TOPUCU Foundation | $50,000 |
| General Council - Assemblies of God | $12,000 |
| Charity Water | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $472k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +98%
- CLCHOOSE LIFE RADIO NETWORK7× · 2019–2025 · $592k · revenue +122% · 59% of their budget
- TFTopucu Foundation Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $125k · revenue +88% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- THTiqvah Hands of Hopeone grant, 2019 · $29k · revenue 0%
- RCRIVERTREE CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $25k
- HFHALO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Impact for Living provides conferences, seminars and consulting services to churches and others desiring to make a difference in the world.
Our vision is to bring about worldwide transformation through empowered believers sharing their faith. To do this we develop and mobilize Christian leaders within their circles of influence by developing and disseminating world-class,…
Impacting people for Christ worldwide through media.
Revelant Bible teachings were provided thru TV broadcasts
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
We engage the far-off, forgotten, abandoned people-the least of these-by building genuine trust through relationships and sharing Christs gospel of grace and great hope. We come alongside and support local churches that disciple their…
Driven by our Christian faith, HopeCo provides quality holistic care that enables vulnerable children, their families, and communities in East Africa to flourish.
How this is measured
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 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE AMERICAN POLICY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE LIFE RADIO NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Topucu Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Tiqvah Hands of Hope ↗
- Who funds HALO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steps Ahead Charitable Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steps Ahead Charitable Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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