Michigan · Nonprofit
STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC
STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,187,504 to it, the largest being Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative ($1,463,566). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $430k
What Steepletown Neighborhood Services Inc does
Mission
To promote neighbor helping neighbor live with dignity and hope. The organization provides programs of services and action in the fields of recreation, education, health care, housing, economic opportunity, racial and cultural relations, spiritual, emotional, and moral development in the greater grand rapids, michigan area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Steepletown's primary focus is to develop the skills and opportunities for disconnected young adults, ages 18-24, and young families to attain employment that moves them out of poverty.
$40,810 spent3% of program spendingWorkforce investment and opportunity act (wioa): steepletown provides youth, ages 14-24, with assistance in attaining academic and career development goals.
Kitchen sage: through its culinary leadership academy, kitchen sage aims to introduce new and creative talent to the ever-growing world of the food service industry.
Other program services as described in schedule o.
$1,269,508 spent97% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,310,318.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $812k to $521k (−36%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 12% · 2018 15% · 2019 12% · 2020 22% · 2021 23% · 2022 48% · 2023 52% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Lauren Conrad
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $417k → $163k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. 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
STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 72% · 2019 77% · 2020 66% · 2021 42% · 2022 71% · 2023 42% — 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
36% of STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
99% of STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC?
- STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,187,504 to it, the largest being Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative ($1,463,566). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,187,504 in grants to STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC?
- Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative is the largest funder on record, with $1,463,566 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 18 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