Colorado · Nonprofit
STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY
STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY (Colorado) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,612,201 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($510,687). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Stepping Stones of the Roaring Fork Valley does
Mission
Stepping Stones cultivates strong mentoring relationships and community spaces for youth ages 10-24 to foster personal growth, compassion and responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stepping Stones is a community-based mentoring program that serves over 460 young people annually, empowering participants to thrive through risk prevention and crisis intervention services. Our philosophy is that strong, long-term relationships with positive adults are the key to empowering at risk youth and their families. Our drop-in centers are open five days a week, and provide a diverse, bilingual, family-like atmosphere where youth receive skill development, nightly meals, basic needs assistance, educational support, family engagement and experiential programming. Stepping Stones supports young people to accomplish their goals, such as, finding their first job, reducing substance use, beginning counseling, going camping for the first time or improving their grades.
$744,380 spentof which $83,486 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $744,380.
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 2017 to 2018, from $494k to $2.1M (+331%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 6% · 2021 2% · 2022 6% · 2023 10% · 2024 11% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kyle Crawley
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $70k → $411k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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 OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
49% 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 OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 44% · 2019 43% · 2020 27% · 2021 31% · 2022 26% · 2023 30% — 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
35% of STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
78% of STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $633k 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
STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY: 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 OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY?
- STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY (Colorado) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,612,201 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($510,687). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,612,201 in grants to STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY?
- ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $510,687 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPPING STONES OF THE ROARING FORK VALLEY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 34 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