Step by Step Family Support Center

Analysis

Step by Step Family Support Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Puyallup, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Step by Step Family Support Center reported income of $12.2m and spending of $11.5m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $5.3m to $12.2m (+129%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 277%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Step by Step Family Support Center sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Family Services Inc ($12.2m), Cleveland Society for the Blind ($12.2m) and Healthnetwork Foundation ($12.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% and program service revenue 76% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $205k (1.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $4.6m. At year end it held assets of $21.5m against liabilities of $7.9m, net assets of $13.6m. It reported 238 employees.