Idaho · Nonprofit
TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC
TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC (Idaho) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $135 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($135). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $135
- Net assets
- $0
What True Step Ministries Inc does
Mission
To provide educational services to encourage at-risk adults & youth to seek recovery and improve life skills adn positively impact society.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The governing body elected to cease all charitable operations and terminate the organization as of june 12, 2023.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Star ranch: saving those at-risk this is an equine therapy progam. At star ranch we work with at-risk youth and adults to gently offer healing through working with horses. Participants explore issues such as trust, responsibility, confidence, and expectations as they learn to care for and bond with these animals. Participants include children, teens, and adults dealing with domestic abuse, recovery, physical, and emotional disabilities. Military veterans with ptsd find healing through connections and friendships with the equine assisted program. 25 participants helped in 2021.
$15,423 spent65% of program spendingStar studios productions true step ministries has several media outlets and projects. During these projects they are encouraged to heal from their pain and grow in their ability to articulate their healing. They are then encouraged to take that knowledge and go out into the community to help others. The media outlets include television, radio, pod-casting, and live streaming. True step currently has a worldwide media presence on five networks: (1) 3 angles broadcasting network, (2) dare2dream, (3) hope tv, (4) 3abn radio, and (5) faith first in new zealand.true step ministries also develops training videos for those working with at risk folks, church leadership, and the communities they serve.
$5,098 spent21% of program spendingCelebrating lifein recovery/mission to the cities-- this multi-faceted outreach of true step ministries educates people of all ages on the core issues of trauma, dysfunction, and addiction. An emphasis is placed on ways to reach out into the community, help those you love, and how to heal by providing the following services: (1) speaking engagements at prisons, jails, juvenile centers, schools, churches, community centers, rehab centers, camp meetings, womans/ments retreats, etc., and (2) personal life coaching.tsm also develops training videos for those working with at risk folks, church leadership, and the communities they serve also encourages groups/individuals to create centers of influence to help with specific needs.
$3,244 spent$5,930 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,765.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $68k to $0 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $46 → $24.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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In Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC?
- TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC (Idaho) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $135 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($135). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $135 in grants to TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUE STEP MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing