Maine · Nonprofit
STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC
STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,763 to it, the largest being THE FALCON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($210,186). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,472 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,472 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- John T Gorman Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Palmer Walbridge Foundationshared funderslocal
- Bowdoin Apartments Corporationportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (37% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $31k → $74k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 STEPPING STONE HOUSING 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
STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 88% · 2019 42% · 2020 39% · 2021 60% · 2022 48% · 2023 41% — 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
36% of STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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
95% of STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 287 organizations that share them.
- John T Gorman Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Palmer Walbridge Foundationshared funderslocalNJ · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · funds 21 organizations near you
- Bowdoin Apartments Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Community Recovery Innovations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Service Credit Union Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Action Pioneer Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlesbank Homesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlantic Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Narragansett Number One Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Paysonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seven Trees InclocalME · funds 10 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 STEPPING STONE HOUSING 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC?
- STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,763 to it, the largest being THE FALCON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($210,186). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $698,763 in grants to STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC?
- THE FALCON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $210,186 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPPING STONE HOUSING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing