Oregon · Nonprofit
Steps For Youth
Steps For Youth (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,311 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($90,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $161k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Steps For Youth does
Mission
Steps for Youths mission is to educate, inspire and enrich lives through dance. We engage with our community by partnering with local schools, encouraging creativity in a safe environment and providing opportunities and resources for youth of all backgrounds and abilities. Programs include the Dance Scholarship program, the BIPOC Black, Indigenous and People of Color Youth Dance program and the DanceAbility program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Dance Scholarships:Steps for Youth offers scholarships to students who demonstrate natural abilities and have the passion to pursue dance professionally. The Dance Scholarship program awarded full and partial scholarships to 24 students, totaling $12,700. This program gives students financial assistance and helps meet their family's needs.
$12,700 spent27% of program spendingBlack, Indigenous & People of ColorBIPOC Youth Dance Program: In 2025, our BIPOC Youth Dance Program served 110 students through ballet and tap dance classes and participated in two live student performances at Portland Center Stage in front of an audience of approximately 800 people. The program ran during the spring, summer and fall totaling 21 weeks of classes. The BIPOC Youth Dance program provides an inviting space for children to be encouraged by their teachers, engage with their peers, and foster collaboration. This is not only a dance program for students, it is a safe place for multicultural and multiracial families to meet, feel supported, build community and benefit their overall wellness.
$24,956 spent53% of program spendingDanceAbility: The DanceAbility program is a weekly dance class offered to students as a year round open enrollment class. DanceAbility is the study of movement improvisation for all people people with and without disabilities, for mixed abilities and mixed experiences. We had an average of 10 students per class on a weekly basis during 2025. Classes are held every Saturday for 30 weeks and are led by a trained Dance Ability method teacher.
$5,584 spent12% of program spendingPhotoshoots: Steps for Youth offers a bi-annual photoshoot to students to be in a professional setting with a photographer and at a local studio. Students participate in individual and group photos with their classmates, learn about proper lighting and other equipment.
$3,770 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,010.
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 2022 to 2023, from $46k to $33k (−27%).
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.
100% of Steps For Youth’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kathryn Harden
President & CEO
Board chair
Monica Parra
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $43k → $47k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Steps For Youth’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
Steps For Youth leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 58% · 2022 69% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of Steps For Youth's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Steps For Youth's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding Steps For Youth receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO FOR-PROFIT SUBRECIPIENT$6k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Steps For Youth
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 Oregon
Nationally
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.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Steps For Youth: 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 Steps For Youth?
- Steps For Youth (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,311 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($90,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Steps For Youth have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $161,311 in grants to Steps For Youth, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Steps For Youth?
- MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $90,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Steps For Youth find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 9 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