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SACRAMENTO STEPS FORWARD

EIN 27-4907397 SACRAMENTO, CA

Revenue 2024
$24,261,724
Expenses 2024
$30,157,356

Program services were 93.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P85
Classification
1000
Street
2150 RIVER PLAZA DRIVE

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).

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.

  • Lisa R Bates

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $222,227
    From this org
    $211,327
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,900
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $211,327
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,340
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,560
    Filer's total
    $222,227

  • Rachel Wickland

    Deputy CEO

    Total calculated
    $161,564
    From this org
    $151,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,189
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,375
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,189
    Filer's total
    $161,564

  • Roseanne Lopez

    Chief Admin Off

    Total calculated
    $156,089
    From this org
    $151,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,714
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,375
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $574
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,140
    Filer's total
    $156,089

  • Michael J Colton

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $147,973
    From this org
    $135,450
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,523
    Hours/week
    40

  • Trent Simmons

    Data & Analytics

    Total calculated
    $138,952
    From this org
    $126,146
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,806
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michele Watts

    Planning officer

    Total calculated
    $137,195
    From this org
    $125,911
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,284
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kimberly Winters

    Comm Impact Dir

    Total calculated
    $131,719
    From this org
    $125,573
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,146
    Hours/week
    40

  • Peter Bell

    Planning Director

    Total calculated
    $124,127
    From this org
    $116,054
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,073
    Hours/week
    40

  • Erin Johansen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ashley Brand

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amber Kemp

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • A Jonathan Porteus PhD

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Husid

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pamela Maxwell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cassandra Jennings

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alissa Ko

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angela Upshaw

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ashleigh Martinez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rachael Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Heller de Leon

    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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $24,261,724
    Expenses
    $30,157,356
    Contributions
    $23,593,137
    Grants paid
    $14,469,254
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $38,108,824
    Expenses
    $26,169,820
    Contributions
    $37,576,604
    Grants paid
    $11,951,620
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $20,331,274
    Expenses
    $19,959,476
    Contributions
    $20,147,379
    Grants paid
    $13,302,362

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.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.