Vermont · Nonprofit
FINDING OUR STRIDE
FINDING OUR STRIDE (Vermont) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,926 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($196,800). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $226k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $660k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Finding Our Stride does
Mission
The mission: empowering upper valley youth through after school running programs, Finding Our Stride boosts fitness, self-esteem and resilience, and connects kids to peers, mentors and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Spring 2025 programming: spring season program cost includes stipends for 79 coaches serving 487 students in afterschool programs at 23 partner school sites in the greater upper valley region of vermont and new hampshire. Youth at each school sites participated in community service learning projects and community engagement projects. Cost include providing healhty snacks, and free running shoes to youth in need. These are program expenses only, no administrative expenses.
$122,246 spent48% of program spendingFall 2025 programming: fall season program costs include stipends to support 96 coaches serving 642 students in our afterschol youth wellness programs at 25 partner-school sites in the upper valley region of vermont and new hampshire. Cost includes youth participants particiipation in chad hero fun run, expansion to new program sites, free running shoes for youth in need and healthy snacks. These are program expenses only, no administrative expenses.
$131,587 spent52% of program spendingCoaches' training session and resources: new training resources were developed with social-emotional curriculum and afterschool session practice plans to incorporate fitness, peer support, and social emational growth. New in-person training sessions were conducted for coaches at three regional sites across the greater upper valley. These are program expenses only, no administrative expenses.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $253,833.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $397k to $250k (−37%).
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.
97% of FINDING OUR STRIDE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Gregory Defrancis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $36k → $171k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 FINDING OUR STRIDE’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
FINDING OUR STRIDE 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
62% 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 FINDING OUR STRIDE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 97% · 2020 70% · 2021 62% · 2022 44% · 2023 23% — 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
75% of FINDING OUR STRIDE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
57% of FINDING OUR STRIDE'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 $284k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $376k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
FINDING OUR STRIDE is better cushioned than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FINDING OUR STRIDE
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FINDING OUR STRIDE: 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 FINDING OUR STRIDE?
- FINDING OUR STRIDE (Vermont) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,926 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($196,800). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FINDING OUR STRIDE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $659,926 in grants to FINDING OUR STRIDE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FINDING OUR STRIDE?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $196,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FINDING OUR STRIDE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 23 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