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SMALL STEPS FOR COMPASSION

EIN 81-2115167 FRANKLIN, TN

Revenue 2025
$416,133
Expenses 2025
$480,656

Program services were 98.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P50
Classification
1200
Street
3726 PANORAMA VALLEY LN

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

We are dedicated to empowering individuals to transform their community through compassionate action. We accomplish this by rescuing children into a loving home for a lifetime and providing entrepreneurial focused education that transforms lives for generations to come in Tanzania, Africa. We do this through a children's home, education, and community outreach efforts.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Small Steps for Compassion inspires global change through community transformation. We do this through rescuing children into a loving home for a lifetime and providing entrepreneurial focused education that transforms lives for generations to come in Tanzania, Africa.

  • During 2025, we continued to operate our school in the Tanzania community; providing a loving home and education to children in our care. We also initiated a community outreach program in Belize.

    Expenses $472,956 · Grants $2,607

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.

  • Corrinne Pickle

    Vice-President

    Total calculated
    $65,000
    From this org
    $65,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Shannin Pickle

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Paul Pickle

    Director of Compliance and Business Development

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Doug Spinella

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Elisabeth Spinella

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Ashton Pickle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Clay Crossan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Amy Litchfield

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $416,133
    Expenses
    $480,656
    Contributions
    $416,133
    Grants paid
    $2,607
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $545,281
    Expenses
    $522,799
    Contributions
    $545,272
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $507,428
    Expenses
    $596,543
    Contributions
    $507,426
    Grants paid
    $35,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,008,738
    Expenses
    $1,006,136
    Contributions
    $1,008,738
    Grants paid
    $168,387
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $958,653
    Expenses
    $1,006,136
    Contributions
    $958,653
    Grants paid
    $168,387

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
    $757,238
    Expenses
    $673,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $159,144

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $546,850
    Expenses
    $660,009
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,611

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $771,179
    Expenses
    $675,867
    Assets (EOY)
    $188,770

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.