Step Up Suncoast Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
596208766
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Sarasota, FL, USA
Phone
9418272887
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Economic Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$23,015,981
Expenses
$23,011,052
Assets
$6,116,896
Liabilities
$2,258,666

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

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Amy Yount (President & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Amy Yount (President & CEO): $245,567 total reported compensation
  • Peter Murawski (CFO): $187,141 total reported compensation
  • Colin J Boyle (CIO): $175,275 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Step Up Suncoast empowers individuals and families to achieve long-term economic stability through education, support services, and community partnerships. The Agency's activities include combating poverty through community action programs and research projects by making every effort to mobilize the human and financial resources of the community, rallying local resources into community action programs for the benefit of all persons irrespective of age, race, color, or creed and facilitating these general purposes through combined representation of federal, state, and local governmental and community agencies.

What it reported doing in 2025

Parents as Teachers - Training, home visit parenting services, and family support and referral services provide for developmental monitoring, parent training, child screening, intervention therapy, and educational programs for over 2,531 participants through various resource connection for families programs. The Parents as Teachers ("PAT") model is designed to provide support for families by making personal visits to the home, conducting group events, providing screenings, and a resource network to families. Through the integrated service, the PAT model goal is to increase parental knowledge of child and family development, increase school readiness, and provide early detection and intervention for possible developmental delays.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.3%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.3% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $20.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $246K · 20 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $959K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.