Annual Reports
We’ve included our most recent Annual Report and financial information plus a few past Reports that represent and celebrate significant milestones and events. If you would like additional information please email our Executive Director with your request.
Next STep cares and is careful…
We work very hard to be good stewards of your donations and to be transparent in all we do. That earns us Candid’s (formerly Guidestar) Gold Seal for transparency and accountability. Click the seal to discover more about what it takes, and what it means, to earn Candid’s Gold Seal.
Please see our most recent financial statements below for the most recent financial information. Guidestar relies upon the IRS to deliver our 990 Reports (equivalent to a nonprofit’s tax return). At the end of 2022, the IRS was half a millions returns behind.
Click to view our First 1,000 Days of the Pandemic Report (December, 2022)
Pandemic Impact Report
1,000 Days to December, 2022
As 2021 comes to a close, it’s difficult to imagine we all first heard the words Coronavirus and COVID more than 1,000 days ago.
Recent Financial Statements and Information
2021 Financial Statements with Independent Accountant’s Compilation Report for the year ended December 31, 2021
2021 990 Report: Take the Next Step’s annual filing with the Internal Revenue Service to maintain our non-profit status
2020 Financial Statements with Independent Accountant’s Compilation Report for the year ended December 31, 2020
2020 990 Report: Take the Next Step’s annual filing with the Internal Revenue Service to maintain our non-profit status
Click to view our 2020 Annual Report
2020 Annual Report
As 2020 began, none of us could imagine what awaited our families, our work, our organizations, and our daily lives.
As the Coronavirus pandemic worsened in the spring, so many people lost their jobs. Families suffered the impacts and so did nonprofits. Our donations dried up. We wondered if we would be able to survive as an organization.
In late March, we received an unexpected $25,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Snohomish County. The grant was unrestricted - we could use it in whatever way we thought best.
Our Board approved passing along the entire $25,000 grant amount to families in need and that became our approach to our finances through the time of the pandemic - to not hold tightly to our resources when others are in need.
Our donors came back and many new donors came, too. And, the grants kept coming…
Through the time of the pandemic in 2020, we passed along over $280,000 in financial assistance to families in our community and we’re not done yet!
You may download our 2020 Financial Report and Statement of Activities here →
2017 Annual Report
Click to view our 2017 Annual Report
After 12 years of relying on volunteer leadership we hired our first paid Executive Director in 2017.
We're still a lean organization with now, seven staff - six part time and our full time Executive Director brings us up to barely four full time equivalent staff. We work hard to be good stewards of your financial donations.
In 2017, 88% of all donations went directly to work in our programs to offer friendship, help, and hope to our neighbors in need.
We live in an incredibly generous community! Beyond financial conations and gifts in kind, 423 committed volunteers gave us nearly 14,000 hours of their time worth $440,000!
We can't do this work without every one of you. Thank you for making our community a better place for every person.
You may download our 2017 Statement of Activities here →
2015 Annual Report
Click to download our 2015 Annual Report
We celebrated our 10th Anniversary in 2015!
It's difficult to image how far we've come in ten years. It has only been possible through the generous support of our amazing community here in Monroe.
With only six part time staff, barely three full time equivalents, we rely upon nearly 300 volunteers who gave us over 11,000 hours of their time in 2015 to help us carry out our mission to offer friendship, help, and hope to our neighbors in need...of all ages.
You may also download our 2015 IRS I-990 Return →