Courageous Steps Project

Analysis

Courageous Steps Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Milford, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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, Courageous Steps Project reported income of $300k and spending of $275k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $212k to $300k (+41%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Courageous Steps Project sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 56th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Peers Rising ($300k), St Petersburg Pregnancy Center Inc ($300k) and CSZ Foundation Inc ($300k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 43% and program service revenue 49% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $198k. At year end it held assets of $93k against liabilities of $9,501, net assets of $84k. It reported 12 employees.