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STEPS

EIN 91-1303628 OAK HARBOR, WA

Largest nonprofits in Washington

Revenue 2024
$2,897,128
Expenses 2024
$2,882,343

Program services were 93.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P82Z
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 633

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

STEPS (FORMERLY TODDLER LEARNING CENTER) PROVIDES THERAPY, EDUCATION, PARENT SUPPORT AND RESOURCES COORDINATION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS IN ANACORTES, ISLAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES IN WASHINGTON STATE.

  • WE ARE THE ONLY NEURODEVELOPMENT CENTER PROVIDING EARLY SUPPORT SERVICES FOR CHILDREN BIRTH TO AGE 3 WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS IN ANACORTES,ISLAND AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES IN WASHINGTON STATE. SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY SPEECH THERAPISTS, MOTOR THERAPISTS, INFANT TODDLER EDUCATORS, PARENT SUPPORT SPECIALISTS, INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST, AND FAMILY RESOURCES COORDINATORS. EARLY SUPPORT SERVICES BUILD UPON FAMILY STRENGTHS BY PROVIDING THERAPY, EDUCATION, PARENT SUPPORT, AND RESOURCES COORDINATION TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS AND/OR DISABILITIES THROUGH EVERYDAY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES. 2024 OUTCOMES POSITIVE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL: 63.06% OF KIDS HAVE SHOWN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN THEIR RATE OF GROWTH AND 71.93% WERE FUNCTIONING LIKE SAME AGED PEERS. ACQUIRING AND USING KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: 78.34% OF KIDS HAVE SHOWN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN THEIR RATE OF GROWTH AND 70.61% WERE FUNCTIONING LIKE SAME AGE PEERS. USE OF APPROPRIATE BEHAVIORS: 71.21% OF KIDS HAVE SHOWN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN THEIR RATE OF GROWTH AND 75.44% WERE FUNCTIONING LIKE SAME AGE PEERS. 2024 UPDATES LAUNCHED ABA SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH AN AUTISM DIAGNOSIS ON WHIDBEY ISLAND AGES BIRTH TO ENTERING KINDERGARTEN. EXPANDED INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH AND CHERISH SERVICES TO SUPPORT CHILDREN THROUGH AGE 5 IN ISLAND COUNTY. HIRED 4 NEW PROVIDERS INCLUDING TWO ABA THERAPISTS, ONE FAMILY SUPPORT SPECIALIST, ONE INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST, AND A DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR. DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TRAINING EQUIPPED STEPS TEAM WITH SKILLS TO RECOGNIZE AND ADDRESS BIAS, FOSTER EMPATHY, AND STRENGTHENED OUR COMMITMENT TO CREATING AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR FAMILIES AND COWORKERS ALIKE.

    Expenses $2,684,170 · Revenue $2,593,627

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.

  • Kathy Fortner

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ellen Wilcox

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Michele Gasper

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Pat Burtner-Freeman

    DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Suzanne Turner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ronnie Wright

    DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1
  • Janet Heverling

    DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Gloria Wildeman

    DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Rene Denman

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $145,021
    From this org
    $145,021
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Susan Hutchinson

    CLINICAL PROGRAM MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $117,035
    From this org
    $117,035
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Tess White

    ESIT PROGRAM MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $108,814
    From this org
    $108,814
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,897,128
    Expenses
    $2,882,343
    Contributions
    $300,533
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,511,983
    Expenses
    $2,608,915
    Contributions
    $201,536
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,006,402
    Expenses
    $2,378,657
    Contributions
    $187,695
    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
    $2,215,608
    Expenses
    $1,861,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,295,955
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,658,276
    Expenses
    $1,516,854
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,126,834
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,359,259
    Expenses
    $1,246,677
    Assets (EOY)
    $740,040
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,110,303
    Expenses
    $967,356
    Assets (EOY)
    $630,845
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $901,625
    Expenses
    $880,241
    Assets (EOY)
    $490,914
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $786,747
    Expenses
    $843,194
    Assets (EOY)
    $472,637
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $794,595
    Expenses
    $757,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $512,039
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $666,507
    Expenses
    $640,208
    Assets (EOY)
    $484,176
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $614,411
    Expenses
    $562,249
    Assets (EOY)
    $459,940
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $467,420
    Assets (EOY)
    $416,532

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

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.