Stepping Stones Network
Legal name: Oasis Productions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141881915
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Phone
- 224-931-0919
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $942,581
- Expenses
- $901,623
- Assets
- $247,728
- Liabilities
- $38,929
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Suzanne Baker Brown (President and CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Suzanne Baker Brown (President and CEO): $53,832 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission To educate and engage the community to prevent sexual exploitation and to provide comprehensive, restorative care to survivors. Vision. We operate with a flexible staff mix of 16 full- and part-time employees, contractors, and incredibly committed volunteer leaders who serve with the same dedication as employees. Our full-time employees are all primarily dedicated to direct client service. 93 percent of HR costs are allocated to programs and 7 percent to administration. Who We Are We are a network of trained professionals and compassionate individuals who partner with adults and nurture children impacted by trafficking or sexual exploitation as they take steps to interrupt the cycle of trauma, develop life skills and build a safe circle of support.
What it reported doing in 2024
Stepping Stones Network Moms Kids - A network of trained professionals and compassionate individuals partners with adults and nurtures children impacted by commercial sexual exploitation as they take steps to interrupt the cycle of trauma, develop life skills and build a safe circle of support. The Moms Kids Program is a 24 month, highly relational program that provides safety, housing, basic needs, child development, and adult development that addresses purpose, home management, financial literacy, health and wellness, parenting, relationships, trauma and addiction recovery, and education and job preparation. In 2025, the program served 45 participants - 17 adults and 28 children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 78% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 52% for direct work, and 48% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.3% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $793K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.