Arkansas · Nonprofit
NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM
NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $433,015 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC ($347,916). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $976k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $433k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Next Step Day Room Inc D/B/A Next Step Day Room does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization is designed to provide alternatives to homelessness to individuals in the fort smith and surrounding areas, to provide opportunities for education and remediation aimed toward equipping these individuals.
$714,756 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $714,756.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $1.9M (+32%).
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 53% · 2018 60% · 2019 56% · 2020 63% · 2021 65% · 2022 57% · 2023 82% · 2024 70% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Sharon Chapman
Exec director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $60k → $30k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 92% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
94% of NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.6M
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 NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM: 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 NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM?
- NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $433,015 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC ($347,916). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $433,015 in grants to NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM?
- UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC is the largest funder on record, with $347,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 11 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