Kentucky · Nonprofit
Step by Step Inc
Step by Step Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,278 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($372,771). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $609k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $667k
What Step by Step Inc does
Mission
The organization is designed to reach out and support young unwed mothers from ages 12-24.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Revive night is an in-person program held weekly to support peer-to-peer learning and community building and includes life-skill workshops on topics such as parenting, domestic violence prevention, child abuse prevention, workforce development, leadership development, and optional spirtual formation courses. Additionally, each revive night hosts dedicated children's programming called revive kids where kids learn health and wellness, literacy, leadership, and more in a fun environment. Every in-person event includes transportation, children's programming, and a hot meal free of charge to all participants.
$223,447 spent52% of program spendingThe level up series are dedicated multi-workshop courses offering deeper dives into life skills topics that run consecutive weeks. The topics include financial literacy, mentoring, goal setting, grief support, mental health supports, and more.
$158,471 spent37% of program spendingThe crisis care program provides subsistence items for families in need such as diapers, wipes, toiletries, gas cards, and bus passes. The program also provides housing referrals, mental health referrals, emergency case management, and emergency financial assistance.
$49,148 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $431,066.
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 $186k to $413k (+122%).
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 32% · 2018 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Step by Step Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Latanya Torp
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $104k → $117k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 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
Step by Step Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Step by Step Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 56% · 2019 73% · 2020 35% · 2021 46% · 2022 41% · 2023 56% — 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
60% of Step by Step Inc's funders are still giving 3 years 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
56% of Step by Step 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 $479k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $607k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Step by Step 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 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 Step by Step Inc?
- Step by Step Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,278 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($372,771). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Step by Step Inc have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,086,278 in grants to Step by Step Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Step by Step Inc?
- BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $372,771 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Step by Step Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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