California · Nonprofit
The High Steppers Drill Team Inc
The High Steppers Drill Team Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,430 to it, the largest being The Clare Rose Foundation Inc ($97,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $303k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $196k
- Net assets
- $49k
What The High Steppers Drill Team Inc does
Mission
The High Steppers Drill Team is an arts and culture organization with a mission to support youth, ages 3-17, by exposing them to an educationally enriched and supportive environment, which will enable them to develop positive self-esteem and healthy behaviors to thrive in all aspects of their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The drill team program serves approximately 55 young people ages 3-17 per year over fall, spring, and summer semesters, utilizing military drill technique, step, and dance routines as an access point for creative youth development. Specifically, the program nurtures youths through skill-building, inquiry, and expression, helping them cultivate healthy relationships with their peers and build social and emotional resiliencies. Youths are supported as they work together towards performing in competitions and public performances throughout the year. Competitions include the Sharp Knott's Berry Farm Cheer, Dance, and Drill State Championship, and the National Football, Cheer, and Step competition in Orlando, FL. The drill team also contributes to the arts and culture of the community by performing in local festivals and parades, including the MLK, Jr. Parade, Veterans Day Parade, Port of San Diego Holiday Bowl Parade & Halftime Show, Juneteenth Celebration & Festival, San Diego Annual Cultural Faire, Chula Vista Parade, and the Kuumba Festival, which events garner audiences of 3,000-20,000 people. The organization regularly assesses the success of its program by collecting…
$139,598 spent$7,750 earned by the program89% of program spendingThe Diamonds and Pearls program is a self-esteem-building program providing youth with etiquette, health, and wellness training as a unique approach to creative youth development. Through the Diamonds and Pearls program, participants are provided with educational workshops in the following areas of focus: poise and grace (posture, greetings, and respectful language), self love and self care (medical hygiene, dental hygiene, mental health awareness, self care, hair care, makeup application/removal, hair cuts), dress n set (appropriate clothing for all occasions, table settings, eating and drinking with care), and etiquette, self esteem and networking (appropriate gestures, giving and receiving compliments, self respect, respecting others). One of the unique aspects of the Diamonds & Pearls program is the organization's ability to bring in guest speakers who work as professionals in the community to speak to and workshop with the youth. Ranging in diversity from United States Navy Officer, Sgt. Beatrice Ruttagah, to Nurse Practitioner Shantee Collins from Kaiser, to Entrepreneur and Youth Mentor from Gladiators Boxing Gym, Sam Bradley, each speaker workshops and presents around…
$9,284 spent6% of program spendingThe Game Face Academy is a program where youth participants learn media and technical skills to document their practices and performances to increase team-building and performance skills. This program was created in response to Drill Team participants expressing the need to document their drill and step routines in order to build upon their skills and evaluate their performance as a team. The need for video documentation became a high priority for the youth participants, so the organization's leadership responded by working with a community partner, Game Face Video, to establish this educational program.
$7,163 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $156,045.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $5k to $90k (+1739%).
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: 2023 80% · 2024 38% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of The High Steppers Drill Team Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $56k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 The High Steppers Drill Team 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
The High Steppers Drill Team Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 The High Steppers Drill Team Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 59% — 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
The High Steppers Drill Team Inc draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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
The High Steppers Drill Team Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The High Steppers Drill Team 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 The High Steppers Drill Team 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 The High Steppers Drill Team Inc?
- The High Steppers Drill Team Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,430 to it, the largest being The Clare Rose Foundation Inc ($97,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The High Steppers Drill Team Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $196,430 in grants to The High Steppers Drill Team Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The High Steppers Drill Team Inc?
- The Clare Rose Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $97,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The High Steppers Drill Team Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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