Michigan · Nonprofit
Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted
Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $636 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($636). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Detroit Economic Growth Associationlocal
- Edwin Caplin Foundation 104786-000portfolio match
- Scratch Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $88 → $208.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $636 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Detroit Economic Growth AssociationlocalMI · funds 977 organizations near you
- Edwin Caplin Foundation 104786-000portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scratch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Les Paul Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dassault Systemes US Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elma Music Foundation (Us)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Benjamin & Elizabeth Abrams Foundation Inc C/O S & E Azriliant PCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted?
- Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $636 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($636). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $636 in grants to Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $636 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Steppingstone Center For The Potentially Gifted find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing