NonprofitsSmall Steps Nurturing Center

Education

Small Steps Nurturing Center

HOUSTON, TX

Total revenue

$5.5M

Total expenses

$5.1M

Net assets

$13.3M

Grants received

$10.0M

303 grants

EIN

760471755

Tax year

2023

Mission

To provide an exemplary early childhood program to Houston's economically at-risk children and their families at no charge which includes high-quality education, nutritious meals, transport to and from school, supplies, and social/emotional therapy.

Financials

FY 2023

Revenue

Contributions & grants$5.2M
Program service revenue$26K
Investment income$360K
Other revenue
Total revenue$5.5M

Expenses

Grants paid$19K
Salaries & benefits$3.7M
Fundraising$548K
Other expenses$1.4M
Total expenses$5.1M
Total assets$14.7M
Net assets$13.3M

People

21 listed

NameRoleCompensation

Ana M Schick

Executive Director

Board

$128K

50 hrs/wk

Jeremy Goebel

Vice President

Board

1 hrs/wk

Brooks Despot

Secretary

Board

1 hrs/wk

Tom Bastian

Treasurer

Board

2 hrs/wk

Haley Boehm

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Cameron R Brown

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Karen David-Green

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Greg Davis

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Bob Duran

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Alicia Fertitta

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Annette Mullins

President

Board

5 hrs/wk

Britt Jung

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Dawn Krieg

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Laura Mullervy

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

R Linda Alonzo Saenz

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Julie P Samson

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Stephanie Sauer

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Emily Sheeren

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Bryan Stahl

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Nazareth Tekeste

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

John F Griffin

Director

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

Independent contractors

Forney Construction

Construction

$2.5M

Grants received

Showing 200 of 303

FromAmountPurposeYear
$300K
CONTRIBUTION
2024
$150K
Early childhood and youth education
2024
$124K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
2024
$100K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
2024
$100K
2024-2025 GENERAL OPERATING FOR GROWING PROGRAM
2024
$75K
General Support
2024
$60K
Teacher salary support
2024
$50K
General support
2024
$40K
General support
2024
$30K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$25K
Program support
2024
$25K
CHILDREN'S CHARITY
2024
$25K
Program support
2024
$25K
SMALL STEPS WINE CLASSIC
2024
$21K
COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES
2024
$20K
SUPPORT THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM FOR 2024-2025
2024
$20K
FOR CHILDREN SUPPORT PROGRAMS
2024
$15K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2024
$10K
FOR GENERAL PURPOSES
2024
$10K
TO SUPPORT THE SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY
2024
$8K
GENERAL OPERATIONS
2024
$8K
PROVIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
2024
$8K
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$8K
GENERAL OPERATING
2024
$5K
Clay Shoot
2024
$5K
Scholarship Society fund
2024
$3K
SUPPORT OF A CHRISTIAN PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES VARIOUS SUPPORT FOR AT RISK CHILDREN AGES TWO TO SIX IN LIVING IN POVERTY.
2024
$2K
EMPLOYEE MATCHING
2024
$2K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$330K
General support
2023
$200K
CONTRIBUTION
2023
$130K
General Operations
2023
$125K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2023
$105K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
2023
$80K
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2023
$75K
General Support
2023
$60K
Teacher salary support
2023
$31K
CHARITABLE DONATION
2023
$30K
SUPPORT OF PROGRAMS
2023
$25K
General Charitable Purpose
2023
$25K
SOCIAL SERVICES
2023
$25K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$25K
SCHOLARSHIPS
2023
$25K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$25K
DONATION TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN CARRYING OUT ITS MISSION TO PROVIDE AN EXEMPLARY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM TO INSTILL AND FOSTER THE SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH OF ECONOMICALLY AT-RISK CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.
2023
$21K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2023
$20K
SUPPORT SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM FOR 2022-2024 SCHOOL YEAR AT THE 5TH WARD CAMPUS.
2023
$19K
OPERATION OF CHARITY
2023
$19K
Futhering the mission of the Org
2023
$19K
Futhering the mission of the Org
2023
$18K
FOR GENERAL PURPOSES
2023
$15K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$15K
General support
2023
$10K
GENERAL USE
2023
$10K
FOR CHILDREN SUPPORT PROGRAMS
2023
$10K
ADVOCATE CHILDREN GROWTH AND NURTURING
2023
$10K
EDUCATION
2023
$9K
TO SUPPORT THE SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY
2023
$8K
TOWARDS SUPPORT OF GENERAL OPERATIONS.
2023
$7K
PROVIDE RESOURCES TO AT-RISK CHILDREN
2023
$6K
GENERAL OPERATING
2023
$5K
Scholarship Society
2023
$5K
TO FUND CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
2023
$5K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2023
$5K
2023 Small Steps Clays Classic
2023
$5K
TO FUND CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
2023
$3K
Program Support
2023
$3K
EMPLOYEE MATCHING
2023
$2K
TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION.
2023
$500
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$300K
Fifth Ward Campus Expansion
2022
$225K
General Support
2022
$200K
Fifth Ward Campus Expansion Campaign
2022
$130K
General Operations
2022
$100K
CHILDREN'S CHARITY
2022
$100K
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE FOR GENERAL OPERATING FUNDS.
2022
$97K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2022
$55K
Teacher salary support
2022
$50K
EXPAND FIFTH WARD CAMPUS
2022
$40K
Contributions - Operating expenses
2022
$40K
SUPPORT OF PROGRAMS
2022
$38K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
2022
$32K
FOR GENERAL PURPOSES
2022
$30K
General support
2022
$29K
Futhering the mission of the Org
2022
$25K
DONATION TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN CARRYING OUT ITS MISSION TO PROVIDE AN EXEMPLARY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM TO INSTILL AND FOSTER THE SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH OF ECONOMICALLY AT-RISK CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.
2022
$25K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2022
$20K
SUPPORT SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM FOR 2022-2023 SCHOOL YEAR AT THE 5TH WARD CAMPUS.
2022
$20K
OPERATION OF CHARITY
2022
$20K
SOCIAL SERVICES
2022
$18K
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2022
$14K
CHARITABLE DONATION
2022
$14K
SET for Life program
2022
$13K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
2022
$10K
UNRESTRICTED
2022
$10K
COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES
2022
$10K
GENERAL USE
2022
$10K
TOWARDS SUPPORT OF GENERAL OPERATIONS.
2022
$10K
Support toward Speech Therapy for the 2022-2023 school year and the mission to provide an exemplary early childhood program that instills and fosters the social, emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual growth of economically at-risk children and their families.
2022
$10K
Support toward Speech Therapy for the 2022-2023 school year and the mission to provide an exemplary early childhood program that instills and fosters the social, emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual growth of economically at-risk children and their families.
2022
$10K
FOR CHILDREN SUPPORT PROGRAMS
2022
$10K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2022
$8K
PROVIDE RESOURCES TO AT-RISK CHILDREN
2022
$5K
Scholarship Society
2022
$5K
OPERATING SUPPORT
2022
$5K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2022
$5K
TO FUND CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
2022
$5K
TO FUND CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
2022
$5K
2022 Small Steps Clays Classic
2022
$5K
OPERATING SUPPORT
2022
$5K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2022
$5K
Scholarship Society
2022
$3K
Program Support
2022
$3K
SUPPORT FOR PRESCHOOLS FOR ECONOMICALLY AT-RISK CHILDREN
2022
$2K
2022 SMALL STEPS WINE CLASSIC
2022
$2K
TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION.
2022
$1K
GIFT MATCH GRANTS
2022
$750
Support Pre-School for Low Income Families
2022
$500
GENERAL OPERATING
2022
$500
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2022
$500
EMPLOYEE MATCHING
2022
$130K
General Operations
2021
$100K
SUPPORT OF THE SMALL STEPS 5TH WARD CAMPUS EXPANSION
2021
$100K
DONATION TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN CARRYING OUT ITS MISSION TO PROVIDE AN EXEMPLARY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM TO INSTILL AND FOSTER THE SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH OF ECONOMICALLY AT-RISK CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.
2021
$79K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2021
$79K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2021
$40K
Contributions - Operating expenses
2021
$40K
SUPPORT OF PROGRAMS
2021
$40K
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
2021
$31K
For recipient's exempt purpose
2021
$25K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2021
$20K
SUPPORT SET FOR LIFE PROGRAM
2021
$19K
FOR GENERAL PURPOSES
2021
$10K
GENERAL
2021
$10K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2021
$9K
CHARITABLE DONATION
2021
$5K
TO FUND CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
2021
$5K
2021 Small Steps Clays Classic
2021
$5K
Small Steps COVID-19 Expenses
2021
$3K
Program Support
2021
$3K
SUPPORT FOR PRESCHOOLS FOR ECONOMICALLY AT-RISK CHILDREN
2021
$2K
SUPPORT FOR PRESCHOOLS FOR AT-RISK CHILDREN IN THE FIFTH WARD
2021
$500
GENERAL SUPPORT.
2021
$300K
Gulfton Expansion Campaign
2020
$255K
CHILDREN'S CHARITY
2020
$125K
General Operations
2020
$100K
EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM FOR AT-RISK
2020
$100K
To support the opening of the new Gulfton campus
2020
$100K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2020
$90K
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
2020
$55K
Teacher's Salary
2020
$50K
Operating Support/Annual Fund
2020
$42K
COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES
2020
$40K
SUPPORT OF PROGRAMS
2020
$30K
UNRESTRICTED
2020
$30K
General support
2020

Funded by

$10.0M from 111 funders · 303 grants · 2017–2024

Greater Houston Community Foundation

$688K · 23 grants · 2018–2024

Houston Livestock Show And Rodeo

$676K · 6 grants · 2017–2023

The Brown Foundation Inc

$600K · 2 grants · 2020–2022

Saramco Foundation

$515K · 4 grants · 2020–2023

Maestro Cares Foundation

$500K · 2 grants · 2023–2024

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

$443K · 8 grants · 2017–2023

The CT Bauer Foundation

$430K · 4 grants · 2020–2024

Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc

$380K · 3 grants · 2020–2024

Details

EIN760471755
NTEE codeB92
Subsection03
Ruling date1995-09
Formed1995
Employees91
Volunteers300
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