Texas · Nonprofit
STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY
STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,000 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($350,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $440k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Stepping Stones Charter Elementary does
Mission
Open enrollment public charter elementary school - grades pre-k through 8th
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Open enrollment public charter elementary school - grades pre-k through 8th
$9,086,694 spent$7,916,431 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,086,694.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $7.5M (+305%).
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: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY’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 CHARTER ELEMENTARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CHARTER ELEMENTARY.
“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
STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 CHARTER ELEMENTARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY: 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 CHARTER ELEMENTARY?
- STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,000 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($350,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $440,000 in grants to STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY?
- CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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