Steps 2 the Future Childcare Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920562293
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Calumet City, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7087041288
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $787,862
- Expenses
- $818,610
- Assets
- $258,314
- Liabilities
- $107,423
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDRE THOMAS (President)
- JENELL DAVIS (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- ANDRE THOMAS (President)
- JENELL DAVIS (Vice President)
- JAZZMINE WAINWRIGHT (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to encourage self-assurance and independence for our children and to provide an educational, professional and contemporary childcare facility. We aim to promote education and child development for our children. We strive to serve the whole child and their families.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our mission is to encourage self-assurance and independence for our children and to provide an educational, professional, and contemporary childcare facility. We aim to promote education and child development for our children. We strive to serve the whole child and their families
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 33.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.2% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $782K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.