Steps for Life

Analysis

Steps for Life is a registered charity in United States, based in New Braunfels, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2014, 12 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, Steps for Life reported income of $95k and spending of $118k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $118k to $95k (-19%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Steps for Life sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile, and in the 38th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Armenia ($95k), Feathers Project Inc ($95k) and Ujala Foundation ($95k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% of the total. At year end it held assets of $78k against liabilities of $9,727, net assets of $69k.