Missouri · Nonprofit
STAIRWAY TO THE SKY
STAIRWAY TO THE SKY (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,720 to it, the largest being BEREAN PRISON MINISTRY INC ($65,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
STAIRWAY TO THE SKY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Skaggs Foundationlocal
- Deeper Life Incportfolio match
- G Andrew Franz Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
100% of STAIRWAY TO THE SKY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 STAIRWAY TO THE SKY’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
STAIRWAY TO THE SKY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 STAIRWAY TO THE SKY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
STAIRWAY TO THE SKY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.
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.
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.
- Skaggs FoundationlocalMO · funds 20 organizations near you
- Deeper Life Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- G Andrew Franz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woodson Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elma Music Foundation (Us)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- WC and EJ Thornton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anderson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Water Buffalo Club Inc Dba We Benefit Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Go Campaignportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact13 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 STAIRWAY TO THE SKY
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 Missouri
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STAIRWAY TO THE SKY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds STAIRWAY TO THE SKY?
- STAIRWAY TO THE SKY (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,720 to it, the largest being BEREAN PRISON MINISTRY INC ($65,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STAIRWAY TO THE SKY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $81,720 in grants to STAIRWAY TO THE SKY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAIRWAY TO THE SKY?
- BEREAN PRISON MINISTRY INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAIRWAY TO THE SKY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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