First Step Family Support Center

Analysis

First Step Family Support Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Port Angeles, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1974, 52 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 December 2023, First Step Family Support Center reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.4m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $2.5m (+80%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, First Step Family Support Center sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Elderhelp of San Diego ($2.5m), Greater Elgin Family Care Center Endowment Trust ($2.5m) and Corporation for Independent Living ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% and program service revenue 2.7% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $751k, net assets of $2.6m. It reported 50 employees.