Stepping Forward Ministries

Analysis

Stepping Forward Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Salem, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Stepping Forward Ministries reported income of $399k and spending of $393k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $317k to $399k (+26%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Stepping Forward Ministries sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Together Ministry Inc ($399k), Conscience International Inc ($400k) and Robert Ford Haitian Orphanage & School Foundation ($398k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $70k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $70k.