Georgia · Nonprofit
STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY
STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY (Georgia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,880 to it, the largest being GRIFFIN SPALDING COUNTY UNITED WAY ($417,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $529k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Stepping Stones Educational Therapy does
Mission
To educate children, challenging each child to reach her/her potential academically, physically, and emotionially
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide educational therapy services for the development of mentally handicapped children. The organization provides services to children ages infant to five years old with and without special needs. The organization also provides services to children with special needs ages six through thirteen through a comprehensive program of intensive remediation intended to increase verbal, perceptual, motor and general learning skills of children with the following conditions: speech impediment, physical/mental handicaps, learning disabilities, and autism
$1,149,376 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,149,376.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $1.8M (+15%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 6% · 2020 8% · 2022 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 36% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
ERIN Mulder
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $67k → $40k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 EDUCATIONAL THERAPY’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 EDUCATIONAL THERAPY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 EDUCATIONAL THERAPY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 88% · 2019 85% · 2020 86% · 2021 86% · 2022 74% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
83% of STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 EDUCATIONAL THERAPY's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY
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
84% 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 EDUCATIONAL THERAPY: 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 EDUCATIONAL THERAPY?
- STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY (Georgia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,880 to it, the largest being GRIFFIN SPALDING COUNTY UNITED WAY ($417,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $528,880 in grants to STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY?
- GRIFFIN SPALDING COUNTY UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $417,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPPING STONES EDUCATIONAL THERAPY 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.
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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 11 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