Alabama · Nonprofit
Next Step Up Inc
Next Step Up Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,372 to it, the largest being CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($16,372). 1 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
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Next Step Up Inc does
Mission
Next Step Up, Inc. mission is to empower students to pursue their dreams by providing academic assistance and mentorship and to positively impact the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Next Step Up's Tutorial Program provided no-cost after-school tutorials to over 120 high school students in Macon County, AL. See Schedule O
$5,700 spent70% of program spendingThe Step With You Mentoring Program trained 50 Tuskegee University students as mentors and matched them with 70 high school students. See Schedule O
$2,398 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,098.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $32k to $18k (−43%).
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 Up Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 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 Up 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Next Step Up 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Up Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Next Step Up 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Next Step Up 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 Next Step Up Inc?
- Next Step Up Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,372 to it, the largest being CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($16,372). 1 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 Up Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16,372 in grants to Next Step Up Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Next Step Up Inc?
- CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Next Step Up Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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