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FOLLOW MY STEPS FOUNDATION INC

EIN 85-2648252 SPRINGFIELD, MA

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Revenue 2025
$499,685
Expenses 2025
$414,183

Program services were 68.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P40
Classification
1200
Street
33 HASKIN 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

OPPOSING SOCIAL-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS FACED BY YOUTH, IN UNDER RESOURCED COMMUNITIES, BY PROVIDING MENTORSHIP, CAREER SKILLS, AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES.

  • THRIVE OVER SURVIVE PROGRAM - WE IMPACTED OVER 300 YOUTH. MENTORED YOUTH ARE 55% MORE LIKELY TO ENROLL IN COLLEGE AND 78% MORE LIKELY TO VOLUNTEER IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. OUR MENTORS PROVIDED OVER 700 HOURS OF ONE-ON-ONE GUIDANCE. MENTORED YOUTH ARE 46% LESS LIKELY TO USE ILLEGAL DRUGS AND 27% LESS LIKELY TO BEGIN DRINKING, CONTRIBUTING TO HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE CHOICES. WE AWARDED OVER $15,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS, HELPING YOUTH OVERCOME FINANCIAL BARRIERS TO HIGHER EDUCATION. DATA SHOWS THAT SCHOLARSHIPS INCREASE COLLEGE ENROLLMENT BY UP TO 30%, ENSURING LONG-TERM ACADEMIC AND CAREER SUCCESS.

    Expenses $274,155

  • NEIGHBORSHARE DONATIONS - WE PARTNER WITH NEIGHBORSHARE TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THOSE IN NEEDS IN OUR COMMUNITY. THROUGH NEIGHBORSHARE WE HAVE HELPED 24 FAMILIES WITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AROUND $7,000.

    Expenses $7,375

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Kashawn J Sanders

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $16,962
    From this org
    $16,962
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Tyrone Williams

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $13,369
    From this org
    $13,369
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Hubert Thevenin Jr

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $8,846
    From this org
    $8,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Jeff Byrnes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $8,131
    From this org
    $8,131
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Anthony Payne

    CHIEF STRATEGY & DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $10,692
    From this org
    $10,692
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Brendan Tassy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Michael Stanley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Frank Bruton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Silavong Phimmasone

    COO (PAST)

    Total calculated
    $10,462
    From this org
    $10,462
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Kay'La Sanders

    DIRECTOR (PAST)

    Total calculated
    $5,000
    From this org
    $5,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Shawn Lockett

    DIRECTOR (PAST)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

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
    $499,685
    Expenses
    $414,183
    Contributions
    $457,190
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $328,022
    Expenses
    $254,993
    Contributions
    $279,809
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $111,882
    Expenses
    $135,601
    Contributions
    $50,396
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $80,795
    Expenses
    $71,834
    Contributions
    $47,898
    Grants paid
    not reported

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $45,392
    Expenses
    $44,378
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,914

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Kashawn Sanders
Mailing address
44 haskin stChicopee MA 01109
Website
www.followmysteps.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.