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REACH OUT FIRST INC

REACH OUT FIRST INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $768,652 to it, the largest being TRUIST FOUNDATION INC ($135,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$391k
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$769k
Net assets
$105k
16/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Reach Out First Inc does

Mission

Step-up greensboro provides free job readiness training, active mentoring, and supportive services to motivate, equip, and empower individuals to be self-sufficient to help them find and keep jobs and build stable lives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Job readiness - a week long workshop that teaches job skills and encourages individuals to make positive changes in their lives. Conducted by a team of volunteers and staff, the training encourages accountability and responsibility. Participants gain insight and skills for effective communications, job search tactics, resume development, networking, conflict management, reflective listening, dressing for success, interviewing and job retention.

    $322,820 spent$33,712 earned by the program
    84% of program spending
  2. Life skills program - offers participants the opportunity to learn moreabout budgeting, personal and relationship development, goal setting,and more through various bridge programs. There is a community ofsupport, including staff, volunteers, and other participants thatinspires lasting change with the goal of long term stability. Bridgeprograms include life skills, men's and women's character developmentand money boot camp.

    $60,225 spent
    16% of program spending
  3. Life skills children's program - provides an age-appropriatecurriculum, teaching goal setting, budgeting, non-verbal skills, communication skills, discipline and respect.

    $720 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $383,765.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($307k) Expenses 100 ($231k) Net assets 100 ($152k)2018 Revenue 43 ($131k) Expenses 82 ($190k) Net assets 61 ($92k)2019 Revenue 93 ($285k) Expenses 93 ($214k) Net assets 108 ($163k)2020 Revenue 89 ($273k) Expenses 111 ($255k) Net assets 112 ($170k)2021 Revenue 107 ($329k) Expenses 139 ($320k) Net assets 118 ($179k)2022 Revenue 81 ($249k) Expenses 156 ($361k) Net assets 44 ($67k)2023 Revenue 188 ($576k) Expenses 172 ($398k) Net assets 162 ($246k)2024 Revenue 128 ($394k) Expenses 186 ($428k) Net assets 139 ($211k)2025 Revenue 127 ($391k) Expenses 215 ($497k) Net assets 69 ($105k)
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Revenue (127)Expenses (215)Net assets (69)Peer revenue range

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 $72k to $252k (+251%).

$159k
$100k
$169k
$202k
$185k
$72k
$252k
$219k
$107k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2022 2% · 2023 25% · 2024 6% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of REACH OUT FIRST INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (55% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,349 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$76k
’17
−$59k
’18
$71k
’19
$17k
’20
$9k
’21
−$112k
’22
$179k
’23
−$34k
’24
−$106k
’25
2.0
months of
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

Anthony Bass

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed162217161616171613
Joined·+10+5+4+4+5+4+2+1
No longer listed·410545334
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $20k → $223k.

8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 REACH OUT FIRST 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

REACH OUT FIRST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

43% 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 REACH OUT FIRST INC.

18%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 95% · 2020 31% · 2021 17% · 2022 50% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.

“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

42% of REACH OUT FIRST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

51% of REACH OUT FIRST INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

PA
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $298k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

REACH OUT FIRST INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,526 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like REACH OUT FIRST INC

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In North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 9%Fundraising 14%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds REACH OUT FIRST INC?
REACH OUT FIRST INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $768,652 to it, the largest being TRUIST FOUNDATION INC ($135,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does REACH OUT FIRST INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $768,652 in grants to REACH OUT FIRST INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of REACH OUT FIRST INC?
TRUIST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REACH OUT FIRST INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing