· Private foundation
Steps Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| CARPENTERS HOUSE | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| PAWS | $200 |
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP | $150 |
| RED TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY | $100 |
| SHALOM CENTER FOOD PANTRY | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| CHRIST STARFISH FOUNDATION | $100 |
| ST JUDE | $50 |
| LIFESPRINGS CHURCH | $50 |
| BRIAN ESSARY MINISTRIES | $50 |
| DAV | $50 |
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 (FY21–25, $450) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +69% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2023–2025 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2023–2025 · $7k
- RFRandolph Friends Church2× · 2020–2021 · $4k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $800
- ICIn Christs Hands Incone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +23%
- TLTRUE LIFE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $400
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.
To communicate the gospel of jesus christ to the world; to uplift, edify and encourage.
In Christ Ministries exists to bring the message of Gods love grace and truth to children teens and adults. We do this through training and outreach events.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Religious organization
Insight for living is a christian radio ministry that teaches the practical application of the bible. insight for living reaches audiences through radio sermons, compact disc recordings, dvd's, podcasts, internet access, books,…
Making disciples of jesus christ through the testifying, sharing and teaching of the gospel of jesus christ
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
Bsf international, llc, administers bible study classes across the world in support of bible study fellowship, an interdenominational lay christian organization.
Religious programming
To minister to the church at large the healing love of god via preaching and teaching the truth of the bible. through preaching the word of god, people will experience the peace of god, comfort for their souls, and healing of broken…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Ministry
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 39 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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steps Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steps Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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