Arizona · Nonprofit
STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC
STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC (Arizona) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,272,184 to it, the largest being BURTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,091,721). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $860k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Step Student Expedition Program Inc does
Mission
Empower underserved arizona students to enroll in and graduate from college. Step currently works with over 300 low-income az high-school students yearly. A majority of step students are the first generation in their family to seek a college degree. To date, 96 of steps college-prep alumni are in college or have attained a college degree.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
College-prep program step provided its comprehensive college-prep program to over 300 low-income arizona high-school students last year. Steps graduating class of 2024 are attending the three arizona state universities as well as top-ranked schools nationwide including bowdoin college, brown university, cornell university, dartmouth college, duke university, johns hopkins university, pomona college, university of pennsylvania, and washington university in st. Louis to name a few. Steps class of 2024 received over 4 million in 1st-year gift aid for the schools they are attending, corresponding to over 16 million for the next four years.
$750,502 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $750,502.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $706k to $939k (+33%).
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: 2018 1% · 2021 11% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Tracy Baynes
Founder, president, and CEO
Board chair
Andrew White
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $314k → $673k.
11 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM 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 STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
88% 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 STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 33% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 28% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% — 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
56% of STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
97% of STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM 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 STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC?
- STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC (Arizona) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,272,184 to it, the largest being BURTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,091,721). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $4,272,184 in grants to STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC?
- BURTON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,091,721 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 29 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