California · Nonprofit
ADVANCING STEPS
ADVANCING STEPS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,500 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $52k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Advancing Steps does
Mission
Helping justice impacted individuals
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Work force development
$216 spent10% of program spendingAdult reentry
$1,867 spent90% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,083.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Walker Beverly
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $15k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 ADVANCING STEPS’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
ADVANCING STEPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 ADVANCING STEPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of ADVANCING STEPS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
ADVANCING STEPS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,635 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,635 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like ADVANCING STEPS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVANCING STEPS: 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 ADVANCING STEPS?
- ADVANCING STEPS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,500 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVANCING STEPS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $47,500 in grants to ADVANCING STEPS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANCING STEPS?
- FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANCING STEPS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 4 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