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A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee

A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $109,367 to it, the largest being WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($109,367). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$13k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$109k
Net assets
$14k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee does

Mission

A step ahead west tennessee educates women in the west tennessee area about planning for their future. We educate all women about the benefits of getting an education and starting their careers before starting their families. We also provide education about the importance of the correct contraception for their lives.,

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

  1. A step ahead west tennessee educates women in the west tennessee area about planning for their future. We educate all women about the benefits of getting on education and starting their careers before starting their families. We also provide education about the importance of the correct contraception for thier lives.

    $87,091 spentof which $104,174 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $87,091.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($356k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($220k)2022 Revenue 15 ($54k) Expenses 91 ($128k) Net assets 66 ($146k)2023 Revenue 17 ($62k) Expenses 98 ($137k) Net assets 33 ($72k)2024 Revenue 36 ($128k) Expenses 89 ($125k) Net assets 34 ($75k)2025 Revenue 4 ($13k) Expenses 53 ($74k) Net assets 6 ($14k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (4)Expenses (53)Net assets (6)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $223k to $149k (−33%).

$223k
$149k
$75k
$76k
$14k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$216k
’21
−$74k
’22
−$75k
’23
$3k
’24
−$61k
’25
-0.1
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20212022202320242025
Listed1313131616
Joined·+0+0+13+0
No longer listed·00100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'24*
total
funders
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee's revenue fell 96% between 2021 and 2025.

Operating margin−458% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve-0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−56% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 16%Fundraising 10%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee?
A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $109,367 to it, the largest being WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($109,367). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $109,367 in grants to A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee?
WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $109,367 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like A Step Ahead Foundation West Tennessee find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing