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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 $216,634 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER REGION INC ($67,352). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $217k
- Net assets
- $79k
What Sensory Theatre Endless Possibilities Inc Step Va Inc does
Mission
Empower people with disabilities, and their families, through creative expression and sensory exploration. STEP VA leads with values and beliefs that recognize that all people can develop to their full potential and engage in a just, equitable community when supported with the appropriate accomodations. Through the arts, all people can be heard and seen regardless of perceived barriers; the possibilities are endless.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Seasonal Camps 2025. Since 2013, STEP VA has served the Fredericksburg region through classes and summer camps, which include instruction in art, dance, theater, music, social skills, and yoga for children, teens, and adults with disabilities.
$31,523 spentof which $26,943 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,523.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $54k to $85k (+57%).
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
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
Jan Monroe
Executive Director
Board chair
Corey Holmes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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) — 53% 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 31% 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
59% 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; 45% 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
53% 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 $102k that is directly attributable, 62% 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 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
SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC
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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
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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 $216,634 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER REGION INC ($67,352). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% 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 $216,634 in grants to SENSORY THEATRE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES INC STEP VA INC, 5 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.
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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 11 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