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STEP-STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC

EIN 22-3879050 TUCSON, AZ

Revenue 2024
$856,729
Expenses 2024
$889,397

Program services were 84.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B112
Classification
1000
Street
6336 N ORACLE RD STE 326

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

EMPOWER UNDERSERVED ARIZONA STUDENTS TO ENROLL IN AND GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE. STEP CURRENTLY WORKS WITH OVER 300 LOW-INCOME AZ HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS YEARLY. A MAJORITY OF STEP STUDENTS ARE THE FIRST GENERATION IN THEIR FAMILY TO SEEK A COLLEGE DEGREE. TO DATE, 96 OF STEPS COLLEGE-PREP ALUMNI ARE IN COLLEGE OR HAVE ATTAINED A COLLEGE DEGREE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EQUIP MOTIVATED LOW-INCOME ARIZONA STUDENTS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE, CONFIDENCE, AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS TO OBTAIN A COLLEGE DEGREE AND BREAK THE CHAIN OF GENERATIONAL POVERTY.

  • COLLEGE-PREP PROGRAM STEP PROVIDED ITS COMPREHENSIVE COLLEGE-PREP PROGRAM TO OVER 300 LOW-INCOME ARIZONA HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS LAST YEAR. STEPS GRADUATING CLASS OF 2024 ARE ATTENDING THE THREE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITIES AS WELL AS TOP-RANKED SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE INCLUDING BOWDOIN COLLEGE, BROWN UNIVERSITY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, DUKE UNIVERSITY, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, POMONA COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS TO NAME A FEW. STEPS CLASS OF 2024 RECEIVED OVER 4 MILLION IN 1ST-YEAR GIFT AID FOR THE SCHOOLS THEY ARE ATTENDING, CORRESPONDING TO OVER 16 MILLION FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.

    Expenses $750,502

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.

  • TRACY BAYNES

    FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $116,831
    From this org
    $110,687
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,144
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANDREW WHITE

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRED PAKIS

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEBORA LUNA

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GEORGE FIGUEROA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTY BURTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMIE ROSENTHAL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JESUS RAMIREZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOAN LOWELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE SCHENK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MORRIS SCOTT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATTI PARRA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SANDRA GRIJALVA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN ERLER

    DIRECTOR

    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
    $856,729
    Expenses
    $889,397
    Contributions
    $832,711
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $860,404
    Expenses
    $854,916
    Contributions
    $834,570
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $857,571
    Expenses
    $780,206
    Contributions
    $848,171
    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
    $736,377
    Expenses
    $693,279
    Assets (EOY)
    $939,183

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $562,472
    Expenses
    $480,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $960,786

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $547,374
    Expenses
    $358,496
    Assets (EOY)
    $938,901

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $483,787
    Expenses
    $475,878
    Assets (EOY)
    $706,078

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $476,354
    Expenses
    $386,673
    Assets (EOY)
    $698,891

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $277,326
    Expenses
    $197,518
    Assets (EOY)
    $460,585

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $186,978
    Assets (EOY)
    $380,002

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $186,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $331,130

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $104,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $227,690

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

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