- 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.
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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.
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Kathy FortnerKATHY FORTNER
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ellen WilcoxELLEN WILCOX
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Michele GasperMICHELE GASPER
SECRETARY/TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Pat Burtner-FreemanPAT BURTNER-FREEMAN
DIRECTORS
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Suzanne TurnerSUZANNE TURNER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Ronnie WrightRONNIE WRIGHT
DIRECTORS
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
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Janet HeverlingJANET HEVERLING
DIRECTORS
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Gloria WildemanGLORIA WILDEMAN
DIRECTORS
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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Rene DenmanRENE DENMAN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $145,021
- From this org
- $145,021
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Susan HutchinsonSUSAN HUTCHINSON
CLINICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
- Total calculated
- $117,035
- From this org
- $117,035
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Tess WhiteTESS 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $2,897,128
- Expenses
- $2,882,343
- Contributions
- $300,533
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,511,983
- Expenses
- $2,608,915
- Contributions
- $201,536
- Grants paid
- $0
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,215,608
- Expenses
- $1,861,590
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,295,955
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,658,276
- Expenses
- $1,516,854
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,126,834
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,359,259
- Expenses
- $1,246,677
- Assets (EOY)
- $740,040
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,110,303
- Expenses
- $967,356
- Assets (EOY)
- $630,845
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $901,625
- Expenses
- $880,241
- Assets (EOY)
- $490,914
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $786,747
- Expenses
- $843,194
- Assets (EOY)
- $472,637
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $794,595
- Expenses
- $757,479
- Assets (EOY)
- $512,039
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $666,507
- Expenses
- $640,208
- Assets (EOY)
- $484,176
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $614,411
- Expenses
- $562,249
- Assets (EOY)
- $459,940
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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
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$70,000
2023 FAMILY WELLBEING PHASE III.
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$18,000
2023 Multi-year general operating support grant for early intervention therapy for children with developmental delays and their families on Whidbey Island, WA
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$12,000
2022 GENERAL OPERATIONS
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$10,000
2024 To end the cycle of child abuse
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$10,000
2023 To end the cycle of child abuse
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$10,000
2022 TO END THE INTERGENERATIONAL CYCLE OF CHILD ABUSE, NEGLECT AND TRAUMA
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$7,700
2024 WORKSHIP PLANNING
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2024 Human Services
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.