Steps to Success Inc

Analysis

Steps to Success Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lancaster, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Steps to Success Inc reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.1m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $485k to $2.2m (+355%), an average of +46% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Steps to Success Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New York Peace Institute Inc ($2.2m), West Central Illinois Nutrition Project Inc ($2.2m) and Ao Advocating Opportunity Inc ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.7% and program service revenue 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $67k (3.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $660k against liabilities of $15k, net assets of $646k. It reported 95 employees.