Inner Sunset Stepping Stones

Analysis

Inner Sunset Stepping Stones is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Inner Sunset Stepping Stones reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.1m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $943k to $1.1m (+17%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Inner Sunset Stepping Stones sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hope Outreach Inc ($1.1m), Family Connections Inc ($1.1m) and Stand in the Gap Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.4% and program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $172k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $592k. At year end it held assets of $390k against liabilities of $157k, net assets of $233k.