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IN HIS STEPS FOUNDATION

EIN 31-1512682 INDEPENDENCE, OH

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Revenue 2024
$7,875,353
Expenses 2024
$8,515,378

Program services were 97.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T700
Classification
1000
Street
6801 BRECKSVILLE RD STE 250

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO ENCOURAGE AND TEACH CHRISTLIKE STEWARDSHIP WHICH BECOMES THE BASIS FOR PERSONAL GIVING AND ESTATE PLANNING; TO ALSO PROVIDE A PRUDENTLY MANAGED REPOSITORY FOR CAPITAL, INVESTED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISTRIBUTION TO MINISTRIES PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST AND FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

  • SEE SCHEDULE O HELP PEOPLE DISCOVER GODS PLAN OF STEWARDSHIP FOR THEIR WEALTH AND IMPLEMENT THAT PLAN THROUGH UTILIZING ALL THE BENEFITS OF A LOW-COST PUBLIC FOUNDATION DEDICATED TO HELPING OTHERS MINISTRIES. HELP FAMILIES START AND USE A FAMILY FOUNDATION FUND FOR CHRISTIAN PHILANTHROPY. HELP CHURCHES AND MINISTRIES START AND GROW AN ENDOWMENT FOR THEIR FUTURE STABILITY. GROW OUR INVESTMENTS USING CAREFULLY SELECTED PROFESSIONAL FINANCIAL ADVISORS SUPERVISED BY THE INVESTMENT COMMITTEE. ANNUALLY MAKE GRANTS FROM OUR GENERAL FUND TO CAREFULLY SELECTED N.E. OHIO CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES. EQUIP GODS PEOPLE IN BIBLICAL STEWARDSHIP THROUGH TEACHING, PUBLIC MEETINGS, AND PRIVATE COUNSELING. OFFER AND ADMINISTER PLANNED FUTURE GIFTS THAT PROVIDE CURRENT TAX-WISE BENEFITS TO DONORS. PARTNER WITH LIKE-MINDED LEGAL, CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONS, AND OTHER COLLABORATIVE RESOURCES FOR MUTUAL ENRICHMENT.

    Expenses $8,261,364 · Grants $7,892,184

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mark Alder

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carolyn Beckett

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Davis

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Duross

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tim Geisse

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jerry Petek

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Warner

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Benjamin Lee

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $151,860
    From this org
    $140,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,860
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $140,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,260
    Filer's total
    $151,860

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,875,353
    Expenses
    $8,515,378
    Contributions
    $4,788,463
    Grants paid
    $7,892,184
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,319,605
    Expenses
    $19,846,145
    Contributions
    $6,612,180
    Grants paid
    $19,167,641
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $16,754,413
    Expenses
    $9,868,047
    Contributions
    $16,156,332
    Grants paid
    $8,801,604

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,341,092
    Expenses
    $7,186,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,060,382

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,073,711
    Expenses
    $5,958,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,099,765

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,626,767
    Expenses
    $6,498,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,029,562

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,584,039
    Expenses
    $6,821,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,423,229

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,760,543
    Expenses
    $6,573,166
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,930,821

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,605,167
    Expenses
    $5,773,631
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,579,028

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,102,198
    Expenses
    $5,412,568
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,594,853

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.