New Hampshire · Nonprofit
STEPPING STONES
STEPPING STONES (New Hampshire) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,662 to it, the largest being COGSWELL BENEVOLENT TRUST ($40,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $495k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $281k
- Net assets
- $154k
What Stepping Stones does
Mission
Stepping Stone's mission is to help homeless, unaccompanied youth up to age 25 become happy self-sufficient adults.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Stepping Stones opened a 60 bed independent living transitional housing program in May of 2023.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Stepping Stones helped 126 youth with many goals such as finding jobs, going back to school, attending college, finding apartments, getting driver's licenses, and more with 4000+ visits in 2023. We also provided basic needs for these youth such as showers, laundry, warm meals, a place to store their belongings, a place to learn independent living skills, wi-fi access and other basic daily needs.
$324,893 spent$325,582 earned by the program63% of program spendingStep-Up is a 60 bed independent living transitional housing program that opened in May of 2023. Young adults learn skills such as money management, home and self care, safety and soft skills. They do daily chores in both their bedrooms, as well as common areas. 43 youth lived at the Step-Up program in 2023 with some taking job training courses, including pre-school teacher, auto repair, LNA, nursing, home care, audio programming, and computer technologies. Others worked full-time. These young adults got driver's licenses, purchased vehicles, and obtained jobs in their fields of interest.
$192,726 spent$167,725 earned by the program37% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $517,619.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $61k to $228k (+272%).
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 30% · 2023 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of STEPPING STONES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Kathy Farland
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $30k → $111k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 STONES’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 STONES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
35% 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 STEPPING STONES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 67% · 2022 29% · 2023 18% — 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
60% of STEPPING STONES's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
STEPPING STONES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,056 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,056 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding STEPPING STONES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$100k
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 STEPPING STONES
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEPPING STONES: 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 STEPPING STONES?
- STEPPING STONES (New Hampshire) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,662 to it, the largest being COGSWELL BENEVOLENT TRUST ($40,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPPING STONES have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $280,662 in grants to STEPPING STONES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPPING STONES?
- COGSWELL BENEVOLENT TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPPING STONES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), 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