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FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC

FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,265 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($157,989). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$169k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$437k
Net assets
$227k
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What First Step Back Home Inc does

Mission

To assist homeless and working poor become self-supporting by providing them temporary shelter, food, clothing, transportation, referrals, and various counseling and support.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provide temporary lodging at local motels,lodging at mobile homes,rent assitance and mortgage assistance for the homeless.

    $66,256 spent
    37% of program spending
  2. Provided for the personal needs of homeless or transient people including groceries, meals, clothing, utilities, legal assistance, healthcare, transportation and employment training

    $23,775 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. Other program service accomplishements: providing transportation for homeless and transient individuals

    $13,017 spent
    7% of program spending
  4. Various other program service expenses

    $78,310 spent
    43% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $181,358.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($261k) Expenses 100 ($224k) Net assets 100 ($241k)2021 Revenue 107 ($278k) Expenses 115 ($256k) Net assets 109 ($263k)2022 Revenue 88 ($230k) Expenses 103 ($231k) Net assets 109 ($262k)2023 Revenue 89 ($232k) Expenses 100 ($223k) Net assets 112 ($271k)2024 Revenue 76 ($198k) Expenses 95 ($211k) Net assets 107 ($257k)2025 Revenue 65 ($169k) Expenses 89 ($199k) Net assets 94 ($227k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (65)Expenses (89)Net assets (94)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 2024 to 2025, from $259k to $228k (−12%).

$252k
$267k
$265k
$272k
$259k
$228k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’20
$22k
’21
−$1k
’22
$9k
’23
−$14k
’24
−$30k
’25
14
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed87876
Joined·+0+2+2+1
No longer listed·1132
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $16k → $66k.

8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 BACK HOME 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 BACK HOME INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

89% 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 BACK HOME INC.

36%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 41% · 2019 38% · 2020 63% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 33% — 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

50% of FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

85% of FIRST STEP BACK HOME 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 $68k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Missouri funders.

IL
MO
VA

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $370k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC's revenue fell 35% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

87%

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 BACK HOME INC?
FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC (Missouri) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,265 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($157,989). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $437,265 in grants to FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC?
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $157,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing