First Step Back Home

Legal name: First Step Back Home Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
208676289
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
O'Fallon, MO, US
Phone
(636) 466-1365
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Emergency Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$168,929
Expenses
$198,846
Assets
$228,010
Liabilities
$672

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PAUL W KRUSE (President)

People named in this filing

  • PAUL W KRUSE (President)
  • LANA M KRUSE (Secretary)
  • DAVE BONNEY (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Through the transformative power of God’s Love through the Gospel of Jesus, we offer solutions for poverty and injustice to the homeless and working poor.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided for the personal needs of homeless or transient people including groceries, meals, clothing, utilities, legal assistance, healthcare, transportation and employment training

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -17.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $181K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.