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LIFE STEPS FOUNDATION INC

EIN 95-3909174 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$14,495,326
Expenses 2024
$10,881,946

Program services were 86.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P50
Classification
1000
Street
5757 W CENTURY BLVD STE 880

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 PROVIDE IN-HOME COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES TO THE MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY, OR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED

  • Lifesteps Foundation, Inc. (LSF) is a fiscally responsible, culturally competent IRC 501(C)(3) organization dedicated to meeting the health, psychological, and socio-economic challenges of people throughout their life span. Since their founding in 1982, LSF has been helping people of all ages with disabilities to acquire the confidence, training, and social and emotional support they need to overcome the obstacle related to their disability. Ultimately, LSF helps them have a better quality of life to thrive as vital members of their communities. LSF provides a variety of in-home and center-based care-giving and skill training prgrams throughout their network of affiliates and a local community service locations across California.

    Expenses $9,377,020

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.

  • Susan Chang-Kuo

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $153,160
    From this org
    $153,160
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Susan Chang-Kuo

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Yang

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peggy Huang

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pauline Arneberg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Claudia Choy JD LLM Tax

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susan Atkins

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Benel Se-Liban

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sanford Livingston Jr

    Board Member

    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
    $14,495,326
    Expenses
    $10,881,946
    Contributions
    $440,925
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $11,192,554
    Expenses
    $10,061,510
    Contributions
    $529,139
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,067,742
    Expenses
    $10,287,579
    Contributions
    $442,067
    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
    $8,167,398
    Expenses
    $6,241,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,454,900

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,524,528
    Expenses
    $3,570,176
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,505,717

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,689,822
    Expenses
    $3,834,148
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,831,201

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,961,752
    Expenses
    $4,250,601
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,061,376

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,969,967
    Expenses
    $4,325,495
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,451,702

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,497,961
    Expenses
    $4,295,892
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,411,907

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,391,116
    Expenses
    $3,696,420
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,873,969

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,009,612
    Expenses
    $3,667,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,433,471

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,679,667
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,270,076

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,377,205
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,363,468

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $475 raised

    2024 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $283 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 GROUP.

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.