Steps to Tomorrow

Analysis

Steps to Tomorrow is a registered charity in United States, based in Palo Cedro, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2008, 18 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 June 2024, Steps to Tomorrow reported income of $303k and spending of $314k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income grew from $223k to $303k (+36%), an average of +6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 170%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Steps to Tomorrow sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 64th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Good Neighbors of Central Ohio ($303k), Santa to the Sea Inc ($303k) and Prayer and Deliverance Community Opportunities ($303k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $40k (13% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $76k against liabilities of $85, net assets of $76k. It reported 6 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.