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SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC
SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,634 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER REGION INC ($67,352). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC has grown faster than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- James N McCoy Foundationlocal
- Arts Council of Fairfax County Incportfolio match
- CultureWorks Incportfolio match
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.
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.
71% of SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $37k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA 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
SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 30% · 2023 73% — 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
40% of SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC's funders are still giving 1 year 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
58% of SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA 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. Of the $82k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- James N McCoy FoundationlocalTX · funds 59 organizations near you
- Arts Council of Fairfax County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CultureWorks Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Business Consortium for Arts Supportportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jason Mraz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frisco Association for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blank Allan and Margot Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Genesis Inspiration Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC
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.
In Virginia
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 SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA 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 SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC?
- SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,634 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER REGION INC ($67,352). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $196,634 in grants to SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER REGION INC is the largest funder on record, with $67,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing