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Footprints of Hope Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Footprints of Hope Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$237k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $136k
$5,129
Median grant
4
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Feed My Starving Children$135,773
Arrive Ministries$35,000
Good in the 'Hood$30,000
Options for Women - St Croix Valley$10,150
Fostering Hope$5,166
Corral Riding Academy$5,129
Threshold to New Life$5,000
SupportLife$4,280
University of Northwestern - St Paul$2,400
New Life Family Services$1,664
Simpson Housing Shelter$1,664
Cru$1,024
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Fostering Hope: $5k → 6%Threshold to New Life: $5k → 11%Good in the 'Hood: $30k → 11%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 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
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
2
New Life Pregnancy Center

New life pregnancy center is a christ-centered ministry committed to upholding the sanctity of human life by demonstrating the love of christ to those facing unplanned pregnancies through the provision of spiritual, physical, and emotional…

Health
3
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
4
New Life Solutions Inc

To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.

Health
5
Light of Life Ministries Inc

Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.

Human Services
6
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

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7
Hope Ministries

Hope ministries is one of the largest private providers of free meals, safe shelter, and comprehensive life-recovery support for homeless, near-homeless, and hungry men, women, and children in iowa. the mission of hope ministries is to…

Human Services
8
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
9
Christian Life Resources Inc

The mission of christian life resources is to use life and family issues as bridges to convey the love of god and to share the message of salvation through christ. this organization educates people on what god's word has to say about the…

Religion
10
Dakota Hope Clinic

Dakota hope offers services that empower women and men to make choices about sexual health and pregnancy that will help them and their children to have a bright future. these services include pregnancy tests, ultrasound, and evidence-based…

Human Services
11
Frisco Family Services Center

Help members of our communities who are facing hunger, homelessness, and other urgent needs improve their quality of life and achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
12
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Threshold to New Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
0/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $135,773 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INCARRIVE MINISTRIES: $35,000 · OtherARRIVE MINISTRIESOPTIONS FOR WOMEN ST CROIX VALLEY: $10,150 · OtherOPTIONS FOR WOMEN ST CROI…SupportLife: $4,280 · OtherSupportLife+3 more: $4,352 · Other+3 moreGOOD IN THE 'HOOD: $30,000 · Human ServicesGOOD IN THE 'HOODFOSTERING HOPE AUSTIN: $5,166 · Human ServicesFOSTERING HOPE AUST…THRESHOLD TO NEW LIFE: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHRESHOLD TO NEW LI…THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $5,129 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $2,400 · Education
International$135,773Other$53,782Human Services$40,166Education$7,529

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $135,773 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARRIVE MINISTRIES: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD IN THE 'HOOD: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOPTIONS FOR WOMEN ST CROIX VALLEY: $10,150 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE AUSTIN: $5,166 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $5,129 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHRESHOLD TO NEW LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES: $1,664 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Graco FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Graco FoundationMN13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Graco Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Footprints of Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Footprints of Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Footprints of Hope Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Footprints of Hope Foundation 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 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-PF 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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