Idaho · Private foundation
The Step Forward Trust
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.
- $369k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Step Forward Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $369k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $197k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $324k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $204k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $208k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $200k | 69% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $31k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Young Mens Christian Association of Boise City Idaho | $1,530,072 | 4 | 3% |
| Learning Lab Inc | $90,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Boise Rescue Mission | $80,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Idaho Foodbank Warehouse | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Health Clinics Inc | $38,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Interfaith Sanctuary Housing Services Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Bronco Athletic Association Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The College of Idaho Inc | $8,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Feed the Gap Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Boys & Girls Clubs of Canyon County Inc | $5,200 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Young Mens Christian Association of Boise City Idaho | $1,530,072 | 4 | 3% |
| Learning Lab Inc | $90,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Boise Rescue Mission | $80,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Idaho Foodbank Warehouse | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Health Clinics Inc | $38,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Interfaith Sanctuary Housing Services Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Bronco Athletic Association Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The College of Idaho Inc | $8,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Feed the Gap Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Boys & Girls Clubs of Canyon County Inc | $5,200 | 2 | 1% |
| Bogus Basin Sport Education Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Idaho Youth Ranch Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boise Urban Garden School | $2,400 | 4 | 1% |
| Idaho Botanical Garden Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Basque Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lee Pesky Learning Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Home Society of Idaho Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($866k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Step Forward Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · The Bews Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Hansberger Foundation · Four J Foundation · Harad Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Step Forward Trust
- How much does The Step Forward Trust give?
- The Step Forward Trust reported 11 grants totaling $368,719 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Step Forward Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (59%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Step Forward Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Young Mens Christian Association of Boise City Idaho ($1.5M), Learning Lab Inc ($90k), Boise Rescue Mission ($80k).
- Does The Step Forward Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Step Forward Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Step Forward Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Idaho Community Foundation Inc, Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc, The Bews Foundation.
- Where is The Step Forward Trust based?
- The Step Forward Trust is based in ID.
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