Steppin In Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363693240
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Billings, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062454005
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,733
- Expenses
- $70,743
- Assets
- $27,511
- Liabilities
- $3,564
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Hagstrom Jr (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Brenda Hagstrom (Executive Direc)
- Robert Hagstrom Jr (Vice President)
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
To provide individuals and/or families faced with difficult circumstances the opportunity to experience the love of God and the support of a community of caring people (for religious purposes)To provide and be involved in a network of other organizations for members of step families, including adults and childrenTo provide Christian-based professional, pastoral, and /or Biblical counseling and/or advice to individuals and/or families faced with difficult challenges of life who cannot afford the normal counseling feesTo provide individuals with support groups for the purposes of exploring Biblical answers and alternative to personal wholeness issuesTo provide educational resources to the community on personal wholeness issues, including, but not limited to, divorce, step families, the effect of early childhood wounding, and personal trauma griefTo provide an annual conference that addresses these same personal wholeness issues and/or step family issues, and suggestions/ideas/plans on ho
What it reported doing in 2025
The purpose and goal of counseling is to affect change in heart attitudes, cognitions (thoughts), behaviors and feelings which will enable the individual(s) to live productive and satisfying life(s) in relation to God, others and self.1. To be empathetically and emotionally present for the client during the session.2. To be actively involved in Christian fellowship, listening prayer and related Biblical and psychological studies.3. To help facilitate, mediate and restore (when necessary) the client's relationship with God, self and others.4. To assist the client in making attainable goals concerning future behavior.5. To hold the client accountable and responsible for past behaviors that have damaged interpersonal relationships.6. To be actively involved in a prayer ministry for our clients.7. To bring all spiritual and professional knowledge (both rational and intuitive) to bear on each session.8. To take a thorough case history in order to develop insight and revelation into past and current relationships.The following were the number of counseling sessions during 2025:458 sessions with individuals; 79 sessions with couples; 11 sessions with families (more than two in a family); and362 sessions of individuals in groups.In addition, there were 42 Pro Bono hours of counseling sessions in 2025 in which the individuals were not charged a fee. There were 70.5 Pro Bono counseling classes in which the individuals receiving these counseling sessions were either charged a reduced fee for a normal session or received longer sessions for no additional charge.There were 41 Pro Bono hours of counseling sessions in 2025 that were paid by contributions. Fees foregone through Pro Bono work was $5,992 and Fees forgone by Fee reduction was $1,202. Fees forgiven by contributions were $1,245. The total Pro Bono Fee forgone was $ 8,439.
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
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.8% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.