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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 FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.5MArts & Culture$1.5MEducation$990kEnvironment$714kHousing & Shelter$434kCivil Rights$363kHuman Services$314kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $407k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $609k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$125,000
ARTSBUILD$111,000
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
THE URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC$100,000
OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC$100,000
CHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENE$72,825
ELLA LIBRARY$38,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$25,000
NORTH CAROLINA ARTS FOUNDATION$25,000
SOUTHERN SMOKE FOUNDATION$25,000
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$25,000
CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS OF CHATTANOOGA INC$21,950
RISE CHATTANOOGA$21,825
PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC$20,000
THE A I M CENTER INC$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $25k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $25k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $10k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $3k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $2k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $1k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $20k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $20k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $6k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $1k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $1k → 12%THE A I M CENTER INC: $20k → 12%THE A I M CENTER INC: $20k → 12%THE A I M CENTER INC: $1k → 12%HELP RIGHT HERE: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
CA
CO
MO
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Footprint Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 83%.

Footprint Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 47 repeat orgs$513k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
29

Total granted

$5.8M
$389k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+48%

Still filing today

81%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • A
    ARTSBUILD
    5× · 2020–2024 · $504k · revenue +166% · 96% of their budget
  • LI
    LAUNCH INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $490k · revenue +13%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $420k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +71%
  • CF
    CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • CF
    Camellia Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +48%
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
Chattanooga Technology Council Inc

Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.

Community Improvement
2
Invest Chattanooga

Invest chattanooga uses flexible, low-cost capital and strategic public-private partnerships to produce financially sustainable, mixed-income housing with deep permanent affordability that the market alone cannot deliver.

Housing & Shelter
3
Carter Street Corporation

Encourage economic development

Community Improvement
4
Preserve Chattanooga Inc Formerly Cornerstones Inc

To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education

Arts & Culture
5
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
6
Chattacademy Community Schools Inc

The mission of chattacademy is to reimagine what public education can look like in chattanooga, tennessee. chattacademy's mission is to graduate bilingual, biliterate critical thinkers ready to make an impact on the world through top…

Education
7
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
8
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
9
Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition Inc

To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…

Community Improvement
10
Creative Works

Creative works is organized to accelerate cultural and economic change by focusing on connecting, inspiring and educating the memphis creative community.

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11
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation

To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…

Arts & Culture
12
Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council

Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc; the most unlike its peers is Unified. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 93 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/76
Grantees still filing
56/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $1,026,499 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundation …HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $600,000 · PhilanthropyHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATIONEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDA…CRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $63,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $27,000 · PhilanthropyARTSBUILD: $503,500 · Arts & CultureARTSBUILDRISE CHATTANOOGA: $303,525 · Arts & CultureRISE CHATTANOOGATHE POP-UP PROJECT: $140,000 · Arts & CultureTHE POP-UP PROJEC…CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $62,700 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $193,500 · Arts & Culture+14 moreLAUNCH INC: $490,000 · Community ImprovementLAUNCH INCURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $420,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN LEAGUE OF …CHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO: $163,800 · Community ImprovementCHATTANOOGA DESI…BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CHATTERY: $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $17,500 · Community ImprovementTeach for America Inc: $760,000 · EducationTeach for Am…ELLA LIBRARY: $59,500 · EducationELLA LIBRARYCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $55,000 · EducationCHATTANOOGAH…+5 more: $22,000 · EducationGlass House Collective: $109,000 · OtherGlass House CollectiveYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA: $100,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO…Unified: $93,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOODS ARTS PARTNERSHIP: $73,500 · OtherTRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND - TENNESSEE: $65,000 · OtherPURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $150,000 · OtherPURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RE…LA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $66,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDING: $300,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITA…CHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE: $286,325 · OtherCHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FO…MEDICOS MISSION FUND: $100,000 · OtherMEDICOS MISSION FUND+34 more: $507,250 · Other+34 moreOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPAC…GREENSPACES INC: $121,000 · EnvironmentGREENSPAC…LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $101,000 · EnvironmentLOOKOUT M…THE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentTHE TENNE…REFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER: $41,425 · EnvironmentREFLECTIO…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $26,000 · EnvironmentTrinidad Coastal Land Trust: $25,000 · EnvironmentCHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE: $352,500 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$1,816,499Arts & Culture$1,203,225Community Improvement$1,191,300Education$896,500Other$1,850,075Environment$674,425Housing & Shelter$382,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $1,026,499 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $760,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetARTSBUILD: $503,500 over 5y, 96% of budgetLAUNCH INC: $490,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $420,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE: $352,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetRISE CHATTANOOGA: $303,525 over 6y, 26% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDING: $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE: $286,325 over 6y, 22% of budgetCHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO: $163,800 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetPURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $150,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetTHE POP-UP PROJECT: $140,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetGREENSPACES INC: $121,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetGlass House Collective: $109,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $101,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA: $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDICOS MISSION FUND: $100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUnified: $93,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetLA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $66,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $63,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetCONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $62,700 over 5y, 22% of budgetTHE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetELLA LIBRARY: $59,500 over 4y, 21% of budgetCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $55,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTennessee Aquarium: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CHATTERY: $50,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetUNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $48,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetREFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER: $41,425 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE AIM CENTER INC: $41,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSPLASH: $40,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MINDFUL LIVING: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCamellia Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Arts Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrinidad Coastal Land Trust: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Smoke Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONSERVATION LEGACY: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLAB: $21,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

Robert F Stone Founda…Benwood Foundation IncLyndhurst Foundation …The Community Foundat…Chattanooga Christian…The Howard FundThe Maclellan Foundat…Weldon F Osborne Foun…Tucker FoundationThe Hacker and Kitty …Robert L & Kathrina H…American Water Charit…
Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone FoundationDE96.6× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Footprint Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Footprint Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Footprint Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Footprint Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 93 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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