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STEP BY STEP INC

EIN 55-0746556 CHARLESTON, WV

Revenue 2024
$3,074,998
Expenses 2024
$2,848,930

Program services were 96.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P82
Classification
1000
Street
1410 4TH AVE

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

DEDICATED TO PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS IN KINDRED COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHERN WV THROUGH DIALOGUE, EDUCATION AND THE ARTS, WELLNESS, LOCAL LEADERSHIP AND RESOURCES AND SERVICE. NATIONAL VISTA AND 21ST CENTURY ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PROGRAMS.

  • WE HAVE SEVERAL OTHER PROGRAMS, WEST VIRGINIA DEPT OF ED., OFFICE OF CHILD NUTRITION TO FEED CHILDREN DURING AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, WV DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY COUNCIL; GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY INITIATIVE, UNITED WAY OF THE THREE RIVERS, AND TOYOTA FOUNDATION ALL SUPPORTED OUR ANTI BULLYING INITIATIVE, AND GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY AND OTHER STATE AND LOCAL PROGRAMS FUNDED OUR ARTS, MUSIC AND YOUTH PROGRAMS FOR AFTER SCHOOL AND SUMMER, AS WELL AS LOCAL FOUNDATIONS FUNDING OUR GROW APPALACHIA PROGRAM IN BIG UGLY AND OTHER PARTNER AREAS.

    Expenses $1,155,916

  • WEST VIRGINIA DREAMERS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM (21ST CENTURY) AND SCHOOL PARTNERS WE SUPPORT STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES LIVING IN THE POOREST COMMUNITIES OF LINCOLN AND LOGAN COUNTIES DURING OUT OF SCHOOL TIME BY MEETING THEIR ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL, HEALTH AND WELLNESS, PREVENTION, AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP NEEDS. OUR SITES ALSO OFFER SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL AGES, FAMILY EDUCATION EVENTS AND COMMUNITY CELEBRATIONS. OUR SCHOOL PARTNERS HAVE VERIFIED THAT 80% OF OUR PARTICIPANTS IMPROVED IN GRADES AND/OR MASTERY LEVELS ON SCHOOL ASSESSMENTS.

    Expenses $992,449

  • NATIONAL VISTA THE WV DREAMERS COLLABORATIVE, BRINGS TOGETHER COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION NON PROFITS, SCHOOL SYSTEMS, UNIVERSITIES AND A GRASS ROOTS COMMUNITY FUND RAISING COLLABORATIVE TO SERVE ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGED COMMUNITIES IN THE SOUTHERN COALFIELDS OF WEST VIRGINIA. VISTA MEMBERS FOCUS EFFORTS ON DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING PROGRAMS TARGETING YOUNG PEOPLE AGES 12 TO 18 AND THE ADULTS WHO SUPPORT THEM. PROJECT GOALS CENTER ON PREVENTING SCHOOL DROPOUT, INCERASING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT, DELAYING AND PREVENTING RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS, AS WELL AS DEEPENING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CORE PROGRAMS AND INCREASING THE CAPACITY OF COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS TO SERVE AND SUPPORT ADOLESCENTS THROUGH THE TRANSITION FROM CHILDHOOD TO INDEPENDENT ADULTHOOD. VISTAS ALSO WORK ON GARDENING AND FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVES AND SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH FACING CHALLENGES OF CHILD WELFARE, JUVENILE JUSTICE AND RACIAL JUSTICE.

    Expenses $349,898

  • CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM STEP BY STEP ALSO WORKS WITH COMMUNITES TO ORGANIZE AND EXPAND AFTER SCHOOL FOOD PROGRAMS INCLUDING ARRANGING FOR TRANSPORTATION, RECRUITING STAFF, AND COORDINATING THE ORDERING OF OFFICE OF CHILD NUTRITION APPROVED FOOD. EACH OF THE INVOLVED SITES EXPANDED RECRUITMENT AND TRANSPORTATION AND PROVIDED SUPPER AND SNACK TO THE COMMUNITIES WITH THE HIGHEST RATE OF FREE AND REDUCED MEALS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTIES. WE ARE ALSO PILOTING FARM TO AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS IN PARTNERSHIP TO PROVIDE FRESH, LOCAL FOOD TO STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

    Expenses $241,188

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Michael L Farmer

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $103,846
    From this org
    $103,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ron Sowell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Price

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alice Faucett

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adam Stollings

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jenn Croteau

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Pushkin

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Doug Walters

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ashley James

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,074,998
    Expenses
    $2,848,930
    Contributions
    $3,031,495
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,433,592
    Expenses
    $3,136,654
    Contributions
    $3,246,347
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,162,309
    Expenses
    $3,266,178
    Contributions
    $2,849,626
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,705,384
    Expenses
    $2,651,165
    Assets (EOY)
    $811,148

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,819,135
    Expenses
    $1,965,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $722,244

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,797,838
    Expenses
    $1,688,022
    Assets (EOY)
    $917,657

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,709,271
    Expenses
    $1,547,899
    Assets (EOY)
    $539,459

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,739,511
    Expenses
    $1,548,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $564,200

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,197,189
    Expenses
    $1,129,848
    Assets (EOY)
    $342,333

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,055,743
    Expenses
    $1,072,626
    Assets (EOY)
    $268,804

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $922,159
    Expenses
    $908,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $288,314

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $939,738
    Expenses
    $881,315
    Assets (EOY)
    $308,406

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $908,611
    Assets (EOY)
    $228,074

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.