Steps for Youth
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843167211
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Portland, OR, US
- Phone
- 971-400-0713
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,885
- Expenses
- $67,555
- Assets
- $29,763
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kathryn Harden (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Kathryn Harden (President & CEO)
- Monica Parra (Chairman)
- Katie Janovec (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
To foster equity, representation, accessibility, and belonging in dance spaces that have historically excluded many people.
What it reported doing in 2025
Black, Indigenous & People of ColorBIPOC Youth Dance Program: In 2025, our BIPOC Youth Dance Program served 110 students through ballet and tap dance classes and participated in two live student performances at Portland Center Stage in front of an audience of approximately 800 people. The program ran during the spring, summer and fall totaling 21 weeks of classes. The BIPOC Youth Dance program provides an inviting space for children to be encouraged by their teachers, engage with their peers, and foster collaboration. This is not only a dance program for students, it is a safe place for multicultural and multiracial families to meet, feel supported, build community and benefit their overall wellness.
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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.2%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 69.6%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 77.2% of revenue deployed · 69.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.