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Virginia · Nonprofit
NEXT STEP TO SUCCESS (Virginia) is funded by 9 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $2,938,996 in grants to it, the largest being THE JAMES BARRY-ROBINSON INSTITUTE ($1,370,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NEXT STEP TO SUCCESS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,390 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,390 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
$6k from 2 funders in 2025, up from $1.4M and 1 in 2023.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 TO SUCCESS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
NEXT STEP TO SUCCESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2023 100% · 2024 48% · 2025 83% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
NEXT STEP TO SUCCESS is locally rooted: 100% of its grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
88% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 9funders 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. view filing