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CITYSTEP ORG INC

CITYSTEP ORG INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,049 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($125,130). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$205k
Revenue FY2025
14
Funders on record
$345k
Grants received
$66k
Net assets
7/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%

Against its field

CITYSTEP ORG INC has grown faster than half of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($35k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2018 Revenue 189 ($103k) Expenses 291 ($103k) Net assets 92 ($5k)2019 Revenue 192 ($104k) Expenses 319 ($113k) Net assets -71 ($-3890)2020 Revenue 237 ($128k) Expenses 287 ($102k) Net assets 415 ($23k)2021 Revenue 315 ($171k) Expenses 326 ($115k) Net assets 1426 ($78k)2022 Revenue 233 ($126k) Expenses 577 ($204k) Net assets -2 ($-90)2023 Revenue 289 ($157k) Expenses 475 ($168k) Net assets -209 ($-11448)2024 Revenue 472 ($256k) Expenses 518 ($184k) Net assets 1110 ($61k)2025 Revenue 378 ($205k) Expenses 562 ($199k) Net assets 1214 ($66k)
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Revenue (378)Expenses (562)Net assets (1214)Peer revenue range

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

93% of CITYSTEP ORG INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,813 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
17
$444
18
$9k
19
$27k
20
$55k
21
$78k
22
$11k
23
$72k
24
$6k
25
4.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $38k.

9 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)81% 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 CITYSTEP ORG 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

CITYSTEP ORG INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 CITYSTEP ORG INC.

36%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 68% · 2019 62% · 2020 71% · 2021 41% · 2022 57% · 2023 63%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

67% of CITYSTEP ORG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

81% of CITYSTEP ORG INC'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. Of the $66k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.

NY
IN
CT
DE

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CITYSTEP ORG INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 17%Fundraising 11%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITYSTEP ORG INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CITYSTEP ORG INC?
CITYSTEP ORG INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,049 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($125,130). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CITYSTEP ORG INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $345,049 in grants to CITYSTEP ORG INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CITYSTEP ORG INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $125,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CITYSTEP ORG INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing