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Foot Locker Foundation Inc

The Foundation is committed to supporting youth, athletics, education, and the communities in which Foot Locker, Inc.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Community Improvement$5.0MEducation$2.9MRecreation & Sports$1.2MYouth Development$1.2MEmployment$280k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $3,245,846, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,846,306 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $600,460 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
$257,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Local Initiatives Support Corp$1,500,000
Pensole Lewis College of Business$1,000,000
United Negro College Fund$310,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$257,500
Two Ten Footwear Foundation Inc$128,346
Virginia Union University$25,000
Winston-Salem State University Foundation Incorporated$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Two Ten Footwear Foundation Inc: $150k → 8%Laureus Sport for Good Foundation: $425k → 17%Police Athletic League of Manatee County: $25k → 10%Positive Coaching Alliance: $10k → 13%College for Creative Studies: $249k → 21%Winston-Salem State University Foundation Incorporated: $25k → 15%Society for Financial Education and Professional Development Inc: $195k → 9%Virginia Union University: $25k → 22%Two Ten Footwear Foundation Inc: $128k → 8%Laureus Sport for Good Foundation: $375k → 17%Police Athletic League of Manatee County: $25k → 10%Pensole Lewis College of Business: $1.0M → 21%Two Ten Footwear Foundation Inc: $100k → 8%Laureus Sport for Good Foundation: $375k → 17%Two Ten Footwear Foundation Inc: $100k → 8%Laureus Sport for Good: $300k → 17%Two Ten Footwear Foundation Inc: $20k → 8%Local Initiatives Support Corp: $1.5M → 17%Two Ten Footwear Foundation Inc: $13k → 8%Local Initiatives Support Corp: $1.5M → 17%Two Ten Footwear Foundation Inc: $10k → 8%Local Initiatives Support Corporation: $750k → 17%Local Initiatives Support Corporation: $750k → 17%United Negro College Fund: $310k → 17%United Negro College Fund: $300k → 17%United Negro College Fund: $300k → 17%Local Initiatives Support Corporation: $250k → 17%United Negro College Fund: $150k → 17%United Negro College Fund: $150k → 17%United Negro College Fund: $150k → 17%United Negro College Fun: $10k → 17%United Negro College Fund: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 6 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$9.0M
$454k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +25%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    4× · 2021–2025 · $858k · revenue +5%
  • TT
    TWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $521k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES
    one grant, 2022 · $249k · revenue -3%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $195k · revenue +79%
  • PC
    POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +35%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
2
National Collegiate Athletic Association

Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.

Recreation & Sports
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
5
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
University of Massachusetts Global

The mission of umass global is to provide students with an accessible inclusive, and transformative education based on excellence and flexibility, creating lasting value and relevance for a dynamic world.

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Police Athletic League of Manatee County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $4,750,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC: $521,275 · Community ImprovementTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INCUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $1,380,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCLEWIS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: $1,000,000 · EducationLEWIS COLLEGE OF BUSINESSCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $248,850 · EducationCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIESSOCIETY FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $195,000 · EducationSOCIETY FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION…+3 more: $60,000 · EducationLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA: $1,475,000 · Recreation & SportsLAUREUS SPORT F…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $857,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…The Police Athletic League of Manatee County Inc: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Polic…
Community Improvement$5,271,275Education$2,883,850Recreation & Sports$1,475,000Youth Development$907,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $4,750,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA: $1,475,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $1,380,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $857,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC: $521,275 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $248,850 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $195,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetThe Police Athletic League of Manatee County Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWinston-Salem State University Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA14.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foot Locker Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foot Locker Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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