Always a Step Above Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923175691
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- York, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7176502965
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $216,520
- Expenses
- $238,555
- Assets
- $37,942
- Liabilities
- $99,647
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA WELSH (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA MUMMERT (BOARD OF DIR): $24,399 total reported compensation
- THERESA BRIGGS (BOARD OF DIR): $21,619 total reported compensation
- LISA A RUTH (SECRETARY): $18,001 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Always a step above, inc will provide premiere support, education, and self-empowerment that is tailored to the individuals, their families as well as our professionals. Always a step above, inc. Will mentor support professionals because they are first and foremost the most important part of our team.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing support services to adults with disabilities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $309.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.63; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.7% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $188K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $24K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.