One Step Closer Foundation
Legal name: Oscf One Step Closer Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450577591
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- Phone
- (281) 757-4476
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nerve, Muscle and Bone Diseases
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $109,553
- Expenses
- $139,572
- Assets
- $384,291
- Liabilities
- $73,479
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACOB ZALEWSKI (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- JACOB ZALEWSKI (President & CEO)
- JACQUELINE ZWERNER (Director)
- YVONNE MOUTON (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
Improving the lives of those who suffer from cerebral palsy and various disabilities.
What it reported doing in 2025
PATIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM & ONE-ON-ONE INITIATIVE: OSCF FREQUENTLY SELECTS SOME PATIENTS FROM VARIOUS HOSPITALS AND PROVIDES ASSITANCE TO THEM (MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENTS, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, OTHER). THIS PROGRAM ALSO INCLUDES TRYING TO MAKE THE DREAM OF VARIOUS PATIENTS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY COME TRUE. By providing a more personalized level of attention, we hope to make a greater difference andimpactin their everyday life.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.5%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 47.5%; rating input score 47
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -27.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.75; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 60.5% of revenue deployed · 47.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.