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TAKE THE NEXT STEP

EIN 20-3291700 MONROE, WA

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Revenue 2025
$851,837
Expenses 2025
$849,893

Program services were 88.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P60
Classification
1000
Street
202 S SAMS ST

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 · 2025

Mission

TAKE THE NEXT STEP (TTNS) IS A GRASS-ROOTS, FAITH-BASED, NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO EMPOWER OUR SKY VALLEY NEIGHBORS WITH ADVOCACY, HELP, AND HOPE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TAKE THE NEXT STEP (TTNS) IS A GRASSROOTS, FAITH-BASED NONPROFIT DEDICATED TO EMPOWERING OUR SKY VALLEY NEIGHBORS THROUGH ADVOCACY, HELP, AND HOPE. AS A SNOHOMISH COUNTY CERTIFIED FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER, WE PROVIDE HOLISTIC SUPPORT THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE SUITE OF PROGRAMS, INCLUDING THE RESOURCE CENTER, UNHOUSED OUTREACH, KIDZ CLUB AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM, COMMUNITY DINNER, AND THE GROWING TOGETHER TEEN MOMS GROUP. TOGETHER, THESE INITIATIVES CREATE A VITAL SAFETY NET AND A PATHWAY TO STABILITY FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

  • FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: PARTICIPANTS/CLIENTS WORK WITH RESOURCE NAVIGATORS WHO WALK ALONGSIDE INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES TO CONNECT THEM TO RESOURCES, ASSISTANCE AND A LARGGER NETWORK OF PROVIDERS BASED ON THEIR SPECIFIC SITUATION AND NEEDS. THE NAVIGATORS CAN PROVIDE MORE BASIC AND IMMEDIATE SUPPORT WITH HYGIENE ITEMS, SHELF STABLE FOOD, COATS, AND OTHER SUPPLIES. BUT THEY ALSO SIT WITH FAMILIES TRYING TO NAVIGATE HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES, ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH, LEGAL SUPPORT, TRANSPORTATION, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND OTHER RESOURCES AS THE NEEDS ARISE.

    Expenses $475,912 · Grants $165,370 · Revenue $10,516

  • KIDZ CLUB AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: KIDZ CLUB AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM FOCUSES ON STUDENTS FROM THE LOCAL TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN OUR TUESDAY/THURSDAY PROGRAM, WITH 30-50 STUDENTS REGISTERED ANNUALLY. STUDENTS ARE GROUPED WITH SAME GRADE STUDENTS AND LED BY CONSISTENT VOLUNTEERS (ADULT AND MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL) TO SUPPORT THEIR ACADEMIC GROWTH AS WELL AS THEIR SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING. WE IMPLEMENT THE PROTECTIVE FACTORS INTO OUR PROGRAM MODEL AND LOVE SEEING THE CHILDREN REACH FOR MORE LEARNING AND GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES.

    Expenses $162,204

  • UNHOUSED OUTREACH IS A MOBILE PROGRAM THAT GOES OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY THREE TIMES A WEEK. WE LOAD UP OUR VAN WITH FOOD, HYGIENE SUPPLIES, CLOTHING AND SUPPLIES TO ENSURE OUR UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS ARE SAFE AND WELL. VOLUNTEERS PREPARE AND FILL BIG GROCERY BAGS OF HEALTHY, NO-COOK FOOD AND OTHER SUPPLIES. OUR PROGRAM DIRECTOR HAS MOBILE VISITS AND IS ABLE TO SUPPORT MANY DIVERSE NEEDS SUCH AS TRANSPORTATION, PHONE ASSISTANCE, SHELTER, MENTAL HEALTH, SUSBTANCE USE SUPPORT AND SO MUCH MORE.

    Expenses $63,535

  • COMMUNITY DINNER RUNS WEEKLY ON WEDNESDAY EVENINGS SEVING HOT MEALS MADE/PURCHASED AND SERVED ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS - LOCAL BUSINESSES, AGENCIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOL GROUPS, FRIEND GROUPS, ETC. WE SERVE AN AVERAGE OF 120 MEALS EACH WEEKGROWING TOGETHER TEEN MOMS GROUP: YOUNG MOTHERS ARE CONNECTED TO LOCAL MENTORS TO WALK ALONGSIDE THEM IN THEIR NEW JOURNEY OF MOTHERHOOD, WHILE ALSO STILL NAVIGATING ADOLESCENCE THEMSELVES. OUR PROGRAM PROVIDES A MIX OF EDUCATION AND FUN OUTINGS TO BUILD A STRONG CONNECTION AMONG THE MOTHERS, AS WELL AS PROVIDE ACCESS TO INFOMATION AND OPPORTUNITIES THEY OTHERWISE MAY NOT HAVE.

    Expenses $53,963

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Melanie Lockhart

    INTERIM BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Paul Ryan

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Junelle Lewis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick Vaughn

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rachel Gough

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marci Scott-Weis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Alex Palomares

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carlos Elles

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Lunstrum

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $51,528
    From this org
    $51,528
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    26

  • Sarah Morgan

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $51,750
    From this org
    $51,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    32

  • Laron Olson

    TREASURER

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $851,837
    Expenses
    $849,893
    Contributions
    $832,611
    Grants paid
    $165,370
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,171,696
    Expenses
    $1,058,134
    Contributions
    $1,161,034
    Grants paid
    $362,265
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,072,153
    Expenses
    $981,115
    Contributions
    $1,062,868
    Grants paid
    $299,754
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $888,598
    Expenses
    $822,388
    Contributions
    $866,152
    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
    $783,067
    Expenses
    $780,814
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,036

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $929,115
    Expenses
    $779,337
    Assets (EOY)
    $334,459

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $550,333
    Expenses
    $575,326
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,854

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $529,301
    Expenses
    $508,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $174,678

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $457,378
    Expenses
    $450,794
    Assets (EOY)
    $154,069

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $396,394
    Expenses
    $358,329
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,483

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $306,305
    Expenses
    $289,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,923

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $150,588
    Expenses
    $136,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,146

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.

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.