Tennessee · Private foundation
Footprint Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 40
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Footprint Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 41 | $949k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $1.0M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $1.4M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.1M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $1.0M | 48% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $839k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teach for America Inc | $760,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Artsbuild | $503,500 | 5 | 96% |
| Launch Inc | $490,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Urban League of Greater Chattanooga | $420,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise | $352,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Rise Chattanooga | $303,525 | 6 | 26% |
| Southeast Community Capital Corporation D/B/A Pathway Lending | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chattanoogans in Action for Love Equality and Benevolence | $286,325 | 6 | 22% |
| Chattanooga Design Studio | $163,800 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 81 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($182k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Footprint Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Howard Fund · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Tucker Foundation · The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc
How this is measured
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About Footprint Foundation Inc
- How much does Footprint Foundation Inc give?
- Footprint Foundation Inc reported 51 grants totaling $1,081,525 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 40 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Footprint Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), Community Improvement (19%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are Footprint Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Teach for America Inc ($760k), Artsbuild ($504k), Launch Inc ($490k).
- Does Footprint Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Footprint Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Footprint Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation, Benwood Foundation Inc, Lyndhurst Foundation Inc.
- Where is Footprint Foundation Inc based?
- Footprint Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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