Texas · Nonprofit
NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION
NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,523 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($82,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $294k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Next Step Equal Education does
Mission
Next Step Equal Education is a nonprofit that collaborates with indigenous villages in Guatemala to improve their local education. Our projects include supporting local schools with materials and supplies creating computer labs in villages building new school facilities bringing secondary education to villages providing school snacks and providing scholarships for secondary education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School construction: we completed the construction of a 6-room schoolhouse with 2 office-bodegas for the middle-high school in the village Taquinc La Esperanza Cahabn Alta Verapaz Guatemala with approximately 104 students and we began the construction of 3 rooms for the second floor of a schoolhouse with an office-bodega for the middle-high school in the village Setzacpec Cahabn Alta Verapaz Guatemala with approximately 133 students.
$118,082 spent39% of program spendingSchool supplies and learning materials: we bought school supplies and learning materials for public schools in 6 villages in Alta Verapaz Guatemala for approximately 867 students.
$77,590 spent26% of program spendingSecondary school classes: we contracted 3 teachers to teach in the middle-high school in Taquinc La Esperanza Cahabn Alta Verapaz Guatemala 2 teachers to teach in the middle-high school in Setzacpec Cahabn Alta Verapaz Guatemala and provided them with support for school activities.
$31,548 spent10% of program spendingSchool furniture: we bought new desks chairs cabinets and shelves for the middle high school we built in Taquinc La Esperanza Cahabon Alta Verapaz Guatemala.
$11,589 spent4% of program spendingSchool snacks: we provided Incaparina a nutrient rich energy dense drink mix along with firewood and a stipend for students mothers who volunteer to prepare the snack to provide in school snacks to approximately 867 students in 6 villages in Alta Verapaz Guatemala.
$27,221 spent9% of program spendingComputer labs: we provided computer teachers and computers and related equipment solar system equipment printing materials costs for equipment repairs to support community run computer labs in 4 villages in Alta Verapaz Guatemala
$29,538 spent10% of program spendingScholarship program: we provided grants to students studying in secondary schools outside their villages to help them pay for the cost of their schooling and living expenses in Izabal and Alta Verapaz Guatemala.
$7,611 spentof which $7,404 as grants3% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $303,179.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $55k to $22k (−59%).
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.
100% of NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $26k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 EQUAL EDUCATION’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
NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION'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 $250 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k 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 EQUAL EDUCATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
33%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION: 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 EQUAL EDUCATION?
- NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,523 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($82,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $82,523 in grants to NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $82,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEXT STEP EQUAL EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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