Washington · Nonprofit
A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY
A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,129 to it, the largest being GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION- SUNSHINE ($160,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $417k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What A Step Ahead in Pierce County does
Mission
Our mission is supporting families of infants and toddlers of all abilities by enhancing their development and relationships both at home and in their community. Our vision is a community that embraces and integrates children of all abilities and treasures the unique gifts each child possesses. Our team works hand in hand with families to unlock the full potential for every child, strengthen family relationships, and create a foundation for a brighter, more inclusive future for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Asapc provides in-home services including speech-language pathology, occupational and physical therapy, developmental services (special education/instruction) including vision and infant mental health, and family resources coordination including case management. These services are tailored to each child's individual needs and aim to promote development in natural environments within their relationships with their families and caregivers.
$3,885,251 spent$4,136,817 earned by the program97% of program spendingThe boost program offers home visiting services to infants and toddlers (birth to 5 years) living in foster care. The goal is to create a sense of safety and security for the child and caregiver, focusing on healthy emotional development and attachment/bonding through infant mental health services. At the end of this fiscal year, the boost program returned to serving birth to 3 years of age and began to support a wider variety of caregivers, primarily foster.
$89,052 spent$94,818 earned by the program2% of program spendingAsapc offers a range of services to support families of infants and toddlers with developmental delays or disabilities across all programs. These include home-based early intervention, transition support, resource referrals, parenting education, and community engagement activities. Asapc supports families with informational and physical resources through a newly established program titled bountiful benefit, a resource closet, that is available to enrolled families. These supports aim to ensure equitable access to related therapeutic, educational, and basic need items or community services.
$18,203 spent$19,382 earned by the program0% of program spendingAsapc organizes various community-based activities such as playgroups, field trips, and family events. These programs aim to engage families and children in social and developmental activities within the community. At the end of this fiscal year, the program will be titled playful connections.
$6,967 spent$7,418 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,999,473.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $2.0M (+86%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 83% · 2018 91% · 2019 89% · 2020 92% · 2021 92% · 2022 92% · 2023 92% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $26k → $52k.
1 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 IN PIERCE COUNTY’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.
How concentrated its funding is
A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 67% · 2019 43% · 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 42% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $629 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.
Against its field
A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY?
- A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,129 to it, the largest being GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION- SUNSHINE ($160,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $417,129 in grants to A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY?
- GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION- SUNSHINE is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing