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Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$319kArts & Culture$137kEnvironment$114kAnimals$91kEducation$81kFood & Nutrition$57kInternational$50kHuman Services$44kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$5,700
Median grant
2
States reached
$659k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ODYSSEY AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM$22,700
RFISD ROCKPORT FULTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION$12,000
ROCKPORT SONGWRITER ASSOCIATION$10,000
ROCKPORT CENTER FOR THE ARTS$7,550
THE GROW HAUS$7,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCKPORTFULTON$5,700
CAMP ARANZAZU$5,000
Women's Shelter of South Texas dba The Purple Door$4,000
ROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARITANS INC$3,500
THE JUNE PROJECT$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
COLORADO ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Foundation 1023: $2k → 7%CAMP ARANZAZU: $8k → 17%CAMP ARANZAZU: $5k → 17%ROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARITANS: $5k → 17%ROCKPORT - FULTON GOOD SAMARITAIN: $5k → 17%CAMP ARANZAZU: $5k → 17%ROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARITANS INC: $4k → 17%Rockport-Fulton Good Samaritans Inc: $3k → 17%CAMP ARANZAZU: $3k → 17%ROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARITANS INC: $3k → 17%Camp Aranzazu: $3k → 17%CHILDREN'S COALITION OF ARANSAS CO: $2k → 17%ARANSAS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $1k → 17%ROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARITANS INC: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
CA
CO
TN
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 25%.

Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$499k · 22 repeat orgs$545k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
55

Total granted

$499k
$519k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+57%

Still filing today

55%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TO
    THE ODYSSEY AFTER-SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
    5× · 2019–2024 · $73k · revenue +59%
  • BC
    BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $72k · revenue +1%
  • TG
    THE GROWHAUS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • EF
    EARTHSAVER FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -94%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $86k
  • IG
    IRIS GLOBALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +42%
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
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
2
Colorado Pet Pantry

The organization temporarily feeds colorado pets, allowing families to increase their ability to care for pets with the goal of keeping them out of shelters and with their families.

Animals
3
Central Texas Spca

Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…

Animals
4
The Arizona Pet Project

The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…

Animals
5
Food Bank of the Rockies

Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
6
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
7
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…

Animals
8
Colorado Kitty Coalition

Colorado Kitty Coalition's (CKC) current purpose/mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home cats in need. Through a network of dedicated foster homes, we provide them with love, safety and a chance for a loving home. We commit to…

Animals
9
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc

C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.

Animals
10
Impact Development Fund

Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…

Housing & Shelter
11
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
12
Boulder Food Rescue

Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County; the most unlike its peers is Backline Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 82 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
33/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $111,500 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $86,130 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERTHE GROWHAUS: $37,500 · OtherTHE GROWHAUSROCKPORT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $26,650 · OtherHFCC INC: $25,000 · Other+52 more: $303,357 · Other+52 moreTHE ODYSSEY AFTER-SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM: $72,748 · Arts & CultureTHE ODYSSEY…ROCKPORT CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT: $25,000 · Arts & CultureROCKPORT CU…ROCKPORT SONGWRITER ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureROCKPORT SO…+1 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $72,000 · HealthBOULDER COM…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · HealthBACKLINE CARE INC: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $4,622 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthEARTHSAVER FUND: $100,000 · EnvironmentEARTHSAVER…GIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · EducationROCKPORT FULTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 · EducationTEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationTEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationIRIS GLOBAL: $50,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,600 · InternationalCamp Aranzazu Inc: $22,500 · Human ServicesROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARINC: $19,500 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION 1023: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$590,137Arts & Culture$111,248Health$104,122Environment$100,000Education$57,000International$52,600Human Services$47,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ODYSSEY AFTER-SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM: $72,748 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $72,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIRIS GLOBAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GROWHAUS: $37,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHFCC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetROCKPORT CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT: $25,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARINC: $19,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe June Project: $12,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCOASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKPORT SONGWRITER ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKPORT FULTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFULTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSUMMIT DOG RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACKLINE CARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $4,622 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL: $3,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL BEND WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BLUE SANTA: $2,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetYOUTH ODYSSEY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMOVEMENT 5280: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Committee of 200: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINGS RESCUE CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION 1023: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetANGELS WITH PAWS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARANSAS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATTERY INC: $510 over 1y, 0.1% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Ed Rachal FoundationCoastal Bend Communit…Colorado Gives Founda…Margaret Sue Rust Fou…Barrow FoundationBehmann Brothers Foun…Nystrom Family Founda…Estill FoundationTres Grace Family Fou…Allen Lovelace Moore …The Longmont Communit…Community Foundation …
Ed Rachal FoundationTX27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ed Rachal Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Margaret Sue Rust Foundation · Barrow Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Nystrom Family Foundation · Estill Foundation · Tres Grace Family Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and Blanche Davis Moore Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County

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 Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 82 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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