Georgia · Nonprofit
STEP UP SAVANNAH INC
STEP UP SAVANNAH INC (Georgia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $733,911 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY CATALYST INC ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $788k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $734k
- Net assets
- $811k
What Step Up Savannah Inc does
Mission
Step up savannah, inc. Engages all sectors of the community to improve the economic mobility and financial stability of families in savannah, chatham county, georgia.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Step up supports strategies that help families build wealth: bank on savannah: a program adopted by the banking taskforce to help people without a bank account access free and low-cost checking and savings accounts. Financial education: financial education helps individuals by improving their knowledge and skills related to earning, spending, budgeting, saving, and borrowing. Access to public benefits: step up and its partners help families to understand and apply for public benefits such as snap, medicaid and peachcare so that they can make the most of their paychecks. Work supports: step up partners with local employers to connect lower-wage workers to services that help them stretch their paychecks and reach financial goals.
$239,029 spent44% of program spendingStep up supports workforce readiness and vocational training programs through these initiatives: chatham apprentice program-cap helps unemployed and under-employed chatham county residents find or create career paths that offer family-sustaining wages and opportunities for advancement. Working family network-the working families network (wfn) is a collaborative that aims to build the capacity of community-based organizations, develop our skills collectively, and implement innovative community strategies that assist low-income individuals to achieve economic mobility.currently, the network consists of more than 60 organizations serving low-income savannah/chatham county residents. Developing a skilled and educated workforce is a critical step in achieving upward mobility for our low-income community.
$177,043 spent33% of program spendingStep up provides resources to build capacity in other community groups and non-profits to combat poverity. Neighborhood leadership academy (nla): nla is a 12-week program offered by step up every year, typically in september, held at savannah state university. Nla engages established and emerging leaders from diverse segments of the community to enhance their leadership skills with a focus on advocacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Americorps vista (vista): americorps vista is a national program designed reduce and combat poverty by recruiting members to build capacity in organizations and communities. Americorps vista commit one year of service and live on a stipend that is equivalent to the federal poverty wage. Step up acts as an intermediary for americorps vista, currently managing 10 vista sites and 10 vista members (including regular revolving recruitment) to help build capacity at these partner agencies.
$126,243 spentof which $2,875 as grants23% of program spendingPoverty is caused by more than a lack of income or better managing personal resources; getting to the root causes means working to change systems that keep people drowning in debt or prevent them from accessing the tools they need to move themselves out of poverty and better position themselves to succeed. Step up identifies local policies and procedures that can be reformed based upon information and feedback from those directly receiving and providing services. Board members consider issues brought to it by action teams and committees after review and research. Through a process of education and debate, board members vote to address specific policy issues and, with technical support from staff, act as the primary advocates for reform. Major policy areas include affordable housing and predatory lending. Step up also conducts "poverty simulations" which educate the community to the issues encountered by low income individuals and families in their struggle to improve their living conditions.
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $542,315.
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 2021 to 2022, from $717k to $918k (+28%).
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 52% · 2018 38% · 2019 51% · 2020 55% · 2021 53% · 2022 48% · 2023 57% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of STEP UP SAVANNAH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Charles Roberson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $65k → $125k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $140k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of the Coastal Empire). These are real filings, and they are not money STEP UP SAVANNAH INC raised.
From the IRS filings of STEP UP SAVANNAH 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 UP SAVANNAH 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
73% 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 SAVANNAH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 38% · 2019 87% · 2020 39% · 2021 46% · 2022 36% · 2023 36% — 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
23% of STEP UP SAVANNAH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
STEP UP SAVANNAH INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 SAVANNAH INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 297 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 297 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding STEP UP SAVANNAH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $175k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$175k
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 SAVANNAH 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEP UP SAVANNAH 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 UP SAVANNAH INC?
- STEP UP SAVANNAH INC (Georgia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $733,911 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY CATALYST INC ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEP UP SAVANNAH INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $733,911 in grants to STEP UP SAVANNAH INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEP UP SAVANNAH INC?
- COMMUNITY CATALYST INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEP UP SAVANNAH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 24 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