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A STEP UP ACADEMY INC

A STEP UP ACADEMY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,994 to it, the largest being EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ($90,234). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$296k
Net assets
$1.5M
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What A Step Up Academy Inc does

Mission

Organization operates a private school for special needs children, with an emphasis on autism, for students in preschool through twelfth grades.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization operates a private school to advance the education of special needs and students with autism. A step up academy serves students in preschool through twelfth grades.

    $8,229,854 spent$11,062,931 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,229,854.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets -18 ($-27860)2018 Revenue 142 ($2.6M) Expenses 127 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($151k)2019 Revenue 155 ($2.8M) Expenses 141 ($2.7M) Net assets 202 ($305k)2020 Revenue 162 ($3.0M) Expenses 153 ($2.9M) Net assets 247 ($373k)2021 Revenue 191 ($3.5M) Expenses 147 ($2.8M) Net assets 720 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 206 ($3.8M) Expenses 191 ($3.6M) Net assets 823 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 288 ($5.3M) Expenses 277 ($5.3M) Net assets 839 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 436 ($8.0M) Expenses 393 ($7.5M) Net assets 1204 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 610 ($11M) Expenses 609 ($12M) Net assets 966 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (610)Expenses (609)Net assets (966)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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $5.5M (+147%).

$281k
$383k
$529k
$989k
$1.3M
$1.6M
$2.2M
$5.5M
$5.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of A STEP UP ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$65k
’17
$179k
’18
$154k
’19
$67k
’20
$713k
’21
$156k
’22
$23k
’23
$545k
’24
−$360k
’25
1.5
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.

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Listed81099910101010
Joined·+3+0+1+2+1+5+1+0
No longer listed·11120510
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $14k → $17k.

1 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 UP ACADEMY INC’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 UP ACADEMY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A STEP UP ACADEMY INC.

30%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2019 68% · 2020 62% · 2021 45% · 2022 32% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.

“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

27% of A STEP UP ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

58% of A STEP UP ACADEMY INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

MA
PA
NJ
MO
TN
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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 UP ACADEMY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like A STEP UP ACADEMY INC

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds A STEP UP ACADEMY INC?
A STEP UP ACADEMY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,994 to it, the largest being EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ($90,234). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does A STEP UP ACADEMY INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $295,994 in grants to A STEP UP ACADEMY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of A STEP UP ACADEMY INC?
EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,234 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like A STEP UP ACADEMY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 18 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