A Step Forward Inc

Analysis

A Step Forward Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Baltimore, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, A Step Forward Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.2m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $930k to $1.3m (+37%), an average of +8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, A Step Forward Inc sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Suffolk Ahrc Foundation Inc ($1.3m), Siegel Rare Neuroimmune Association ($1.3m) and Network for Strong Communities ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 80% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $533k. At year end it held assets of $503k against liabilities of $179k, net assets of $324k. It reported 19 employees.