California · Nonprofit
STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC
STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC (California) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,581,163 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,567,450). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Step Up on Second Street Inc does
Mission
Step up on second street delivers compassionate support to people experiencing serious mental health issues, and people who are experiencing chronic homelessness, to help them recover, stabilize, and integrate into the community. Through dynamic partnerships, we provide positive social and learning environments, vocational training, permanent supportive housing opportunities, and recovery services to empower individuals to cultivate lives of hope and dignity. We exercise innovative leadership and advocacy to increase public understanding, support, and acceptance of all people living with serious mental health issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing:step up on second street, inc. Has real estate rental operations that assisted individuals experiencing homelessness to move into permanent supportive housing. As of june 30, 2025, step up on second street, inc. Owned and/or operated properties in el monte, los angeles, redlands, salinas, san bernardino, and santa monica, california, as well as sanford, florida.
$34,674,671 spentof which $500,000 as grants$3,334,450 earned by the program67% of program spendingBehavioral health:step up on second street, inc. Assists individuals (including veterans and transitional age youth) who experience homelessness and serious mental health issues with mental health and case management services both in clinic and field-based, comprehensive services which address all areas of life, supportive services, programs and linkage to permanent supportive housing, life skills coaching, socialization, linkage to food resources, homeless advocacy, outreach and housing retention, housing placement and support leading to individual goal attainment, increased self-sufficiency, and recovery.
$17,078,569 spent33% of program spendingEmployment services:step up on second street, inc. Believes that everyone who wants to work should work. Services include exploration of vocational interest/history, resume building, job search, referrals to community employment training programs, pre-vocational training community job seeking and placement, and peer support training.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $51,753,240.
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 2020 to 2021, from $21M to $38M (+80%).
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 83% · 2018 75% · 2019 91% · 2020 85% · 2021 87% · 2022 85% · 2023 84% · 2024 88% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Tod Lipka
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Barrett Esarey
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.3M.
11 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 UP ON SECOND STREET INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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 UP ON SECOND STREET INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 UP ON SECOND STREET INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 35% · 2019 46% · 2020 38% · 2021 42% · 2022 17% · 2023 35% — 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
39% of STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 UP ON SECOND STREET INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 UP ON SECOND STREET INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $61.0M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$31.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$29.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like STEP UP ON SECOND STREET 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 29 related entities
- Daniel's Village LLC · disregarded
- Step Up on Second LLC · disregarded
- Michael's Village LLC · disregarded
- The Tammy Apartments LLC · disregarded
- Step Up on 26th LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC?
- STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC (California) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,581,163 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,567,450). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $17,581,163 in grants to STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,567,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 88 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