Washington · Nonprofit
STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER
STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,565,819 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($2,574,933). 30 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 FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Step by Step Family Support Center does
Mission
Equipping pregnant women, mothers, and families to positively impact generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Step by step helps families in our community, by giving babies a healthy start and moms the skills they need to thrive. The organization offers both maternity support services and infant case management, using a holistic approach that includes home visits from registered nurses, licensed counselors, and registered dietitians. Step by step is also proud to offer mental health support groups, job training, employment, educational scholarships, and peer mentorship, while also fulfilling tangible needs such as car seats, strollers, and food.
$1,768,313 spentof which $158,479 as grants$33,570 earned by the program16% of program spendingFarm 12 restaurant & events is a social enterprise of Step by Step Family Support Center. Farm 12 restaurant & events was built to preserve a historic piece of farmland, enrich lives and holistically strengthen families, create job opportunities, be a gathering place for our community, and ultimately, produce profits to fund the mission of step by step. The entity actively engages with clients of step by step to take on roles at farm 12 to allow the clients to gain job and life skills as part of the program.
$9,538,923 spent$9,069,236 earned by the program84% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,307,236.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.5M to $11M (+214%).
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 38% · 2018 13% · 2019 62% · 2020 19% · 2021 11% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
David Lawson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $450k → $969k.
14 of 63 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 STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER 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
61% 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 STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 48% · 2019 24% · 2020 36% · 2021 66% · 2022 33% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER'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 $3.5M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER?
- STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,565,819 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($2,574,933). 30 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 STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $7,565,819 in grants to STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,574,933 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 63 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