New York · Nonprofit
FOOTSTEPS INC
FOOTSTEPS INC (New York) receives grants from 148 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,179,485 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($2,326,621). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 148
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Footsteps Inc does
Mission
Footsteps, inc. Supports and affirms individuals and families who have left, or are contemplating leaving, insular ultra-orthodox jewish communities in their quest to lead self-determined lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Economic empowerment supports members' economic self-sufficiency through education, career and financial counseling programs, workshops and partnerships with trusted organizations. Educational scholarships, crisis supports, tutoring and mentoring are also offered.
$1,498,187 spentof which $640,060 as grants38% of program spendingIdentity development supports members through peer support groups, one-to-one supportive counseling, acculturation workshops, and referrals to mental health services.
$726,456 spent19% of program spendingCommunity engagement builds the strength of our network to ensure that members have friends and allies along their journey. Highlights include: social events, community building activities, leadership development, and awareness raising.
$632,069 spentof which $31,976 as grants16% of program spendingFamily supports are geared towards parents fighting for the right to a relationship with their children as they leave ultra-orthodoxy. Program activities include: case management, peer support drop-in groups and workshops, and partnerships with lawyers and legal groups to provide legal consultation and representation. Our field and movement building program seeks to educate and mobilize the public around reform efforts and issues of concern to those leaving ultra-orthodoxy.
$1,060,472 spent27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,917,184.
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 $3.1M to $6.4M (+102%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FOOTSTEPS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Chief executive
Lani Santo
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $678k → $2.7M.
24 of 148 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 FOOTSTEPS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 148 funders by total. 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
FOOTSTEPS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
44% 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 FOOTSTEPS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 15% · 2019 35% · 2020 22% · 2021 14% · 2022 12% · 2023 11% — 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
48% of FOOTSTEPS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
52% of FOOTSTEPS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
FOOTSTEPS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOOTSTEPS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOTSTEPS 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC?
- FOOTSTEPS INC (New York) receives grants from 148 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,179,485 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($2,326,621). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOTSTEPS INC have?
- IRS filings report 148 organizations giving $17,179,485 in grants to FOOTSTEPS INC, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOTSTEPS INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,326,621 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOTSTEPS 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.
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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 148 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