Colorado · Nonprofit
STEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR
STEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,059 to it, the largest being STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC % JAMES NEWCOMB ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $137k
What Stepping Stones of Windsor does
Mission
Assistance to pay rent and utilities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Assist with rent and lease payments
$74,840 spent74% of program spendingAssist with utility payments
$26,399 spent26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $101,239.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $61k to $132k (+117%).
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.
99% of STEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $54k.
From the IRS filings of STEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR’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 OF WINDSOR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 WINDSOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 52% · 2022 100% · 2023 47% — 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
88% of STEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 OF WINDSOR has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 STONES OF WINDSOR: 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 WINDSOR?
- STEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,059 to it, the largest being STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC % JAMES NEWCOMB ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $181,059 in grants to STEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR?
- STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC % JAMES NEWCOMB is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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