Next Step Pilates
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472300931
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7037397601
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Physical Fitness and Community Recreational Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,742
- Expenses
- $16,391
- Assets
- $35,014
- Liabilities
- $1,600
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Garcia (President)
People named in this filing
- Brigitte Savage (Board Member)
- Jessie Savage (Board Member)
- Sue Santa (Boardmember)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide Authentic Pilates at a free or need based sliding scale fee to military personnel and veterans who have been injured as a result of their service.
What it reported doing in 2024
The NextStep Pilates program includes a series of ten free one-on-one sessions with trained Pilates instructors followed by a careful assessment and additional one-on-one or group training on the mat as needed. Lessons are taught at studio body Logic studios in Alexandria and Arlington and designed to address individual veteran needs and challenges. Narrative of the accomplishments - SBL has created a Pilates program that works one-on-one and also provides small group Pilates training for recovering veterans in the Washington metro area.Designed by Joseph Pilates specifically to rehabilitate the war wounded, Pilates has been shown to increase the core endurance necessary to restore comfortable, confident movement. Employed are highly trained and qualified authentic Pilates instructors with the skills and training to help veterans return to everyday life. Since the program launched in 2014 SBL has worked with over 50 active and retired military men and women.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 100% of its reported program spending for member benefits.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 51
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $32.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.14; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.