Florida · Nonprofit
FIRST STEP INCORPORATED
FIRST STEP INCORPORATED (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,350 to it, the largest being LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $70k
What First Step Incorporated does
Mission
Aid rehab of probationers
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The organization funded services to aid the rehabilition process of persons serving a probation sentence. Services included psychological counselling group therapy, educational & vocational counseling, and medical care.
Funds were also available to probationers for living expenses such as rent, food, utilities clothing, work tools etc. Approximately 3000 probationers were benefited by the program.
$7,971 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,971.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $57k to $70k (+24%).
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.
96% of FIRST STEP INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $35k.
From the IRS filings of FIRST STEP INCORPORATED’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 INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 51% · 2020 60% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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
72% of FIRST STEP INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FIRST STEP INCORPORATED
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 FIRST STEP INCORPORATED: 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 FIRST STEP INCORPORATED?
- FIRST STEP INCORPORATED (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,350 to it, the largest being LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST STEP INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $89,350 in grants to FIRST STEP INCORPORATED, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST STEP INCORPORATED?
- LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST STEP INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 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