Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC
LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,672 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($825,363). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Williamsportlycoming Chamber of Commercelocal
- Virginia Early Childhood Foundationportfolio match
- Maryland Family Network Incportfolio match
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.
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 93% · 2018 92% · 2019 93% · 2020 92% · 2021 93% · 2022 95% · 2023 93% · 2024 91% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $261k → $120k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) 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
LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
94% of LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) 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 $57k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $826k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Williamsportlycoming Chamber of CommercelocalPA · funds 13 organizations near you
- Virginia Early Childhood Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Family Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cnb Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peoples Security Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mdrcportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Licking County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lena Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wellspan Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry Plankenhorn Foundation InclocalPA · funds 18 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $61.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$61.4M
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 LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Community Action Realty Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC?
- LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,672 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($825,363). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $882,672 in grants to LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC?
- FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $825,363 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing