Next Step Center

Analysis

Next Step Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Somerset, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Next Step Center reported income of $909k and spending of $733k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $299k to $909k (+204%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 122%. Over the whole period it spent 66% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Next Step Center sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kelly Memorial Food Pantry ($908k), Along the Way Inc ($909k) and Upper Merion Area Community Cupboard ($908k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 14% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $322k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $37k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 15 employees.