· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $5,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SWAN SONGS | $3,750 |
| GLENBROOK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR MYELOMA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- 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 10-90 COPPERSTATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Footprints Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Footprints Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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