Ohio · Nonprofit
FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC
FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,836,705 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($639,964). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Front Steps Housing and Services Inc does
Mission
To provide individuals and families who are mentally disabled and/or economically disadvantaged in cuyahoga county with permanent supportive housing and/or lifelong solutions to increase self-sufficiency and independence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Special programs and assistance for homeless individuals:front steps provides permanent supportive housing to assist our clients from homelessness to safe, affordable housing. Front steps offers several support services (life skills, supported employment and training, comprehensive case management/ mental health counseling, outpatient treatment services, peer support services. House keeping skills, financial management and independent living workshops, permanent supportive housing program: abuse recovery classes).
$912,485 spent$81,320 earned by the program58% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing program:provides and manages 68 safe, decent, affordable housing units for chronically homeless persons, who are disabled and economically disadvantaged by low income. In 2024, front steps provided 72 clients with permanent housing and 100% maintained housing for 1 year or more and the agency obtained a 98% rental collection rate. Services offered to tenants and community-based clients include employment support, mental health case management, behavioral health counseling, intesive outpatiet services, prevention and life skills. Across all programs offerings 360 served.
$662,459 spent$201,559 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,574,944.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.3M to $3.0M (+31%).
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 32% · 2018 33% · 2019 29% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 51% · 2023 45% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Sherri Brandon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $97k → $249k.
6 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
67% 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 FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 53% · 2019 37% · 2020 57% · 2021 41% · 2022 18% · 2023 36% — 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 FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
88% of FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $834k 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.
Government funding FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- St Joseph's Commons LP · partnership
- St Joseph Commons Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES 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 FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC?
- FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,836,705 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($639,964). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,836,705 in grants to FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $639,964 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 40 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