Stepping Stones Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474942977
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6233138785
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,500
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIE JACKSON (PRESIDENT)
- ALIYA PETERSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- WILLIE JACKSON (PRESIDENT)
- ALIYA PETERSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ERIC BROWN (YOUTH COACH)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Youth development and mentoring
What it reported doing in 2017
More than a felon - offender housing and employment services. Offender outreach and mentoring
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -165.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -163.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 1 of 2 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2016 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.