Stepping Stones Childrens Center

Analysis

Stepping Stones Childrens Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Crested Butte, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending August 2023, Stepping Stones Childrens Center reported income of $806k and spending of $797k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $416k to $806k (+94%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Stepping Stones Childrens Center sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bright Eyes Quality Child Care Inc ($806k), Valley Child Development Center Inc ($806k) and Heartsent Adoptions Inc ($806k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 82% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $586k. At year end it held assets of $253k against liabilities of $50k, net assets of $203k. It reported 38 employees.