Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
STEPS TO SUCCESS INC
STEPS TO SUCCESS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,323 to it, the largest being JOSEPH & GENE SWEDISH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $609k
What Steps to Success Inc does
Mission
To enable children to grow and become productive citizens through early childhood education in a daycare setting.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Steps to success provides child day care that is educational in nature in a safe environment. In addition to traditional child care, other services provided include before and after school care at 5 locations and a school age summary camp. Pre-kindergarten is also offered and is taught by a certified teacher with over 20 years experience. Approximately 300 children are cared for over the course of the year. They range in age from infants to 13 years of age. Meals and snacks are provided to children throughout the day. They go on field trips and have a variety of activities at the child care center.
$2,325,761 spent$2,816,597 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,325,761.
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 2020 to 2021, from $187k to $425k (+127%).
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 4% · 2018 0% · 2020 18% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of STEPS TO SUCCESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Michelle Harbaugh
Executive director/acting
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $97 → $642.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 TO SUCCESS INC’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 TO SUCCESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 81% · 2023 78% — 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
STEPS TO SUCCESS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $573 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 TO SUCCESS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like STEPS TO SUCCESS INC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 STEPS TO SUCCESS INC: 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 TO SUCCESS INC?
- STEPS TO SUCCESS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,323 to it, the largest being JOSEPH & GENE SWEDISH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPS TO SUCCESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $8,323 in grants to STEPS TO SUCCESS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPS TO SUCCESS INC?
- JOSEPH & GENE SWEDISH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPS TO SUCCESS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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