Vermont · Nonprofit
STEP OUT INC
STEP OUT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,500 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($49,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $-35638
What Step Out Inc does
Mission
Step Out Vermont provides life skills and recovery-focused programming to support women transitioning from incarceration and other systems, with a focus on financial literacy, employment readiness, and overall wellbeing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, Step Out focused on curriculum development and program planning to expand life skills education for women in recovery/transition, incl. development of financial literacy and workforce readiness materials, community partnerships, and prep for hybrid program delivery.
$10,469 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,469.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $31k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 OUT 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 OUT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
98% 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 OUT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of STEP OUT 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Vermont funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
STEP OUT INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $51k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like STEP OUT 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 Vermont
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STEP OUT INC?
- STEP OUT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,500 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($49,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STEP OUT INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,500 in grants to STEP OUT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEP OUT INC?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $49,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEP OUT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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