· Private foundation
The Footprints 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TECHFORCE FOUNDATION | $91,200 |
| MCPHERSON COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SWAN SONGS | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $1,000 |
| GLENBROOK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TFTECHFORCE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $518k · revenue +353%
- MCMCPHERSON COLLEGE3× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +129%
- SSSwan Songs Musical Last Wishes8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- DFDOIT FROM THE HEARTone grant, 2024 · $20k
- FFFUND FOR MYELOMA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +743%
- HEHAGERTY EDUCATION PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Champion humanitarian & patient-centered roles for pathologists. connect those in need to the specialized, life savings skills of pathologists. confer training & awards to residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Fund for Myeloma Education and Research Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TECHFORCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RPM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Health Alliance for Austin Musicians ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR MYELOMA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creative Women of the World Inc ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF TEXANS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DE ESPERANZA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
- Who funds 10-90 COPPERSTATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: St David's Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Footprints Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.