Virginia · Nonprofit
FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $763,767 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ($268,710). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $706k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $764k
- Net assets
- $162k
What First Step a Response to Domestic Violence Inc does
Mission
Empowering survivors to break the cycle of violence and abuse in their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Domestic violence emergency shelter: first step provides emergency, temporary shelter to victims of domestic violence and their minor children who have no other safe place to stay. Individuals being sheltered by first step are provided a safe place to sleep and living area, linens/towels, bathroom, television, computer, internet/wifi access, laundry facility, kitchens (food storage and preparation). Guests are provided items to meet their basic needs (e.g. Food, clothing, school supplies, personal items, gift cards and disinfecting/cleaning/household supplies). Case management, advocacy, and supportive services are offered to all adult and child guests. All of first step's services are free of charge and confidential. 60% of direct services expenses went to domestic violence emergency shelter services. For the year ending june 30, 2025, first step provided shelter services to 38 adults and 39 children.
$369,824 spent56% of program spendingDomestic violence support services: first step provides supportive services to victims of violence and their children (both residents of the shelter and non-residents). These services include; crisis hotline, safety planning, domestic violence adult support group, children's activity and homework groups, individual counseling, court accompaniment/legal advocacy services and assistance finding and obtaining community resources, employment and housing. First step also offers follow-up support services. First step services are free of charge and confidential. For year ended june 30, 2025 first step provided supportive advocacy services to 214 adult survivors of domestic violence and 40 children, 31% of direct service expenses went to domestic violence support services.
$184,913 spent28% of program spendingRapid re-housing program: financial assistance for rent deposits, utility deposits, rental application fees, and/or short-term rent to assist victims of domestic violence to assist victims of domestic violence sheltered by the program to exit to permanent housing. Assistance can continue for no more than 24 months and is paid directly to the landlords, property managers and/or utility company. Rapid re-housing program services include staff time on the project. For the year ended june 30, 2025, the organization assisted 11 households (12 adult victims of domestic violence and 21 children) through this rental assistance program. 9% of direct service expenses went to housing advocacy services and rapid re-housing program assistance.
$101,142 spentof which $39,505 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $655,879.
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 $390k to $173k (−56%).
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 78% · 2018 70% · 2019 80% · 2020 79% · 2021 75% · 2022 78% · 2023 74% · 2024 59% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $49k → $239k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 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
FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 42% · 2019 37% · 2020 42% · 2021 40% · 2022 39% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $269k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC?
- FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $763,767 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ($268,710). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $763,767 in grants to FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $268,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST STEP A RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 6 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