California · Nonprofit
THE STEPS FOUNDATION
THE STEPS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,716 to it, the largest being THE CESATAM FOUNDATION INC ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $525k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $713k
- Net assets
- $112k
What The Steps Foundation does
Mission
The Steps Foundation provides female veterans, gold star spouses, and sof spouses with curated, trauma-informed resources and services that foster wellness, career transition, and community connection during their transition away from military life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mental health and wellness program: the foundation offers meditation and mindfulness sessions, introducing tools to help reduce stress by shifting the nervous system from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic. Somatic coaching includes leading edge trauma-informed somatic therapists who work with spouses to address past traumas and nervous system dysregulation, enabling spouses to claim a sense of safety, vitality and embodiment beyond long held survival patterns.
$148,573 spent37% of program spendingPhysical health and wellness: nutrition and fitness programs make healthy living approachable. Families receive individualized support to simplify mealtimes, provide menus for specific health concerns, reach personal fitness goals, and discover tools to help reconnect families with their operator after so many years apart. Endocrine balancing helps identify imbalances in hormone levels and spikes in cortisol levels, providing supplements for continued health and wellness and offering holistic health programs to reduce stress and anxiety. The foundation offers virtual pelvic floor therapy to help address pelvic issues
$121,895 spent31% of program spendingCareer and education: performance-based coaching sessions, utilizing neuroscience, positive psychology and strength-based tools and techniques to help spouses gain clarity on purpose, passion and strengths. Financial readiness education sessions and one-on-one financial counseling help spouses create and implement a customized financial plan. For spouses who have recently relocated or are seeking a career change, we provide tailored support through resume writing services and linkedin advisory sessions, helping them highlight their unique skills and experiences.
$24,535 spent6% of program spendingCommunity: the foundation hosts monthly connection calls, offering diverse sessions led by carefully curated providers. Rooted in our four cornerstones mental, physical, community, and career and education these calls create a trusted space for learning, connection, and growth. Spiritual connection groups are designed to foster wisdom, personal growth, and a deeper sense of purpose, while benefiting from the fellowship of like-minded spouses who understand the unique challenges and joys of military life. These groups offer a supportive environment to share, connect, and grow together as a sisterhood beyond the military. The foundation hosts monthly connection calls, offering diverse sessions led by carefully curated providers. Rooted in our four cornerstones mental, physical, community, and career and education these calls create a trusted space for learning, connection, and growth. Spiritual connection groups are designed to foster wisdom, personal growth, and a deeper sense of purpose, while benefiting from the fellowship of like-minded spouses who understand the unique challenges and joys of military life. These groups offer a supportive environment to share, connect, and grow…
$101,717 spent26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $396,720.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $60k to $119k (+98%).
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 THE STEPS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Angela Dejarnette
Founder & executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 STEPS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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 STEPS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 STEPS FOUNDATION.
“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 STEPS FOUNDATION draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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 STEPS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE STEPS FOUNDATION
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE STEPS FOUNDATION: 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 STEPS FOUNDATION?
- THE STEPS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,716 to it, the largest being THE CESATAM FOUNDATION INC ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE STEPS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $712,716 in grants to THE STEPS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE STEPS FOUNDATION?
- THE CESATAM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE STEPS FOUNDATION 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing