Step Ahead Idaho
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273488398
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Boise, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2084848522
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,547
- Expenses
- $169,599
- Assets
- $192,909
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CINDY FAZZIO (PRESIDENT)
- SUE LOVELACE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- VICKY SWERDLOFF (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CINDY FAZZIO (PRESIDENT)
- SUE LOVELACE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LAURA GIBSON (SECRETARY)
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
Step ahead Idaho addresses the community need for more comprehensive, affordable college admission counseling by providing free college drop-in advising, free workshops, and fee-for-service workshops.
What it reported doing in 2025
2. Free workshops. Before covid-19, we strived to reach out to the larger community with free talks at our new hillcrest location and events that provide information to targeted groups. Among our most heavily attended sessions were: how to choose a college, what to know about applying to selective schools/military academies/the ivy leagues, navigating financial aid, boise school district health professions expo and how to be a recruited athlete. Our outreach extended to providing workshops at the hispanic leadership conference, leadership boise, boise school district evenings about health and stem-based careers, sessions for financial planners interested in providing better college affordability advice for their clients, and college-readiness clinics for over 1500 junior high and high school students. The pandemic shifted our focus to working with individuals and their families so our assistance is targeted and personalized, and to working in partnership with organizations like college bound to deliver programming that is designed for fewer students at one time via in person sessions and different digital learning platforms. We have also expanded our outreach to blaine and valley counties. One advisor in each location partners with the local high schools, offering in person or zoom advising during the academic year and hosting summer workshops.in 2023, we expanded our in-person programming to include classes on how to manage and assemble the different college applications available to high school seniors and held two summer sessions. Our resources budget for this aspect of our services is $10,000 per year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -63.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.