In His Steps International Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
201911331
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Phone
7196503082
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Protestant
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$456,385
Expenses
$496,476
Assets
$117,047
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ERIC HANSON (PRESIDENT)
  • VIRGINIA HANSON (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ERIC HANSON (PRESIDENT): $63,000 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

In his steps international (ihsi) is an international christian organization which trains, equips, encourages, and empowers the saints for works of service, with the purpose of building up of the body of christ. Ihsi was founded to teach and mobilize the body of christ worldwide, enhancing spiritual growth, promoting worldwide evangelism, and strengthening christian leaders. The ministry deals with matters of discipleship, relationship, and the hearts of the people god has called us to work with. Ultimately whether dealing with orphans, widows, youth, the poor, the elderly, or government leaders, our goal is to walk in love. Our ministry programs involve leadership training, short-term teams, pastoral care, micro-enterprise opportunities for the impoverished, rural relief and development, and caring for orphans and widows.

What it reported doing in 2025

Loaves and fish programthis is a feeding and care program that is now 20+ years old and was created to care for poor and needy families. Our idea was to help people until they could become stable on their own, building self-worth and strength. We have moved many through this program with success. We still have one couple in this program who are in their eighties and unable to sustain themselves.sports programsports plays a large role in discipleship we believe. Our sports ministry has drawn many youth and young people to the campus in the past and is still a draw. Our coaches and volunteers are very good with the youth, teaching them the principles of the game of soccer and how daily practice and commitment to the team members can build long lasting relationship and trust. Each student attends the youth group meeting on saturday afternoon after practice as well as meeting for a daily devotion before each practice and game. Tutoring programour campus has free on site tutoring after school for students that are having difficultly with some classes. This is open to the students that sak saum supports with school supplies, as well as others that are willing to study after school.guitar classour guitar teacher sokra is leading some students into the music field. Sokra is teaching basic cord shapes and basis strumming patterns for the beginner. Sokra is using christian worship songs as his examples, sokra is one of the worship leaders in gospel community church saang. Young people love learning the guitar, with a dream of playing in the worship team someday.computer classescomputer skills are not taught in school in cambodia and it is a necessary skill in today's world. Gccs has been teaching computer skills for 10 years. We focus on beginner skills and knowledge of computer hardware and software and move up to learning programs like word and excel. For advanced learners we move to photoshop and graphic design.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 50% for direct work, and 50% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th 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: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $464K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.