North Carolina · Nonprofit
WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE
WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,000 to it, the largest being Communities Foundation of Texas Inc ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE's revenue grew 560% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture 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.
- Walnut Cove Members Association Incshared funderslocal
- Wakefield Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Harmon Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
81% of WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE’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
WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE.
“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
68% of WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE'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. Of the $162k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $351k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Walnut Cove Members Association Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you
- Wakefield Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harmon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loomis Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caldwell Preload Spirit Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- USA Equestrian Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles M Bair Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooks and Caitlin McCabe Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ashburn Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundationportfolio 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 WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE: 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 WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE?
- WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,000 to it, the largest being Communities Foundation of Texas Inc ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $513,000 in grants to WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE?
- Communities Foundation of Texas Inc is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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