Loading…
· Private foundation
The Footprints Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$9k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants
2
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of The Footprints Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
short-term emergencyhardshipoutreach
2019
—
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2019 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$2,039
Median grant
2
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
- ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT C$6,000
- UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY$2,039
- BONNIE BRAE$1,000
- THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC$300
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$39k · 4 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +76% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
14
Total granted
$39k
$51k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+80%
+76%
Still filing today
75%
29%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +129%- TBTRI-STATE BASSET HOUND RESCUE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +80%
- BBBONNIE BRAE2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- HIHEARTWORKS INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -15%
- PAPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +76%
- MRM Rodriguezone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Suncoast Basset Rescue Inc
Suncoast Basset Rescue (SBR) rescues Bassett Hounds from stray, abusive, abandoned and sheltered situations. SBR gives Basset Hounds a second chance to live as someones best animal friend.
Animals
2
Bridge Home No Kill Animal Rescue
To provide a no kill shelter in order to rescue and find homes for displaced animals
Animals
3
Buckn-R-Ranch Animal Rescue Inc
Buck'n-R-Ranch Animal Rescue, Inc. (BRRARI) helps in the plight of homeless domestic animals in need.
—
4
Bonapartes Retreat
Bonapartes retreat is dedicated to providing nurturing foster care for shelter dogs when their allotted time at the shelter has elapsed; to prevent these wonderful animals from being euthanized and to find them permanent, loving homes.
Animals
5
Boston Terrier Rescue of North Carolina
The organization rescues and cares for boston terrier dogs until appropriate homes can be found, and provides transportation to the new home. the organization serves north carolina, and assists in south carolina, georgia, virginia, and…
Animals
6
Boston Buddies Inc
Boston Buddies is an organization that rescues and rehomes Boston Terriers and Boston Terrier mixes in need in Southern California and surrounding areas. We rescue from local shelters, take in owner surrenders and strays, provide temporary…
Animals
7
Badass Animal Rescue Inc
Rescue organization for abused and abandoned dogs that are in danger of imminent death at rural high kill shelters in the American South and United States Virgin Islands. The rescue rehabilitates any health and behavior issues. After…
Animals
8
Baypath Humane Society
Baypath humane society of hopkinton is dedicated to providing shelter, care, humane treatment and loving homes for stray or unwanted companion animals. they seek to serve their community by fostering relationships, promoting education, and…
Animals
9
Southern States Bully Rescue Inc
Shelter abused, abandoned, neglected, injured & homeless animals
Animals
10
Bridge Between Animal Rescue
To be the bridge between an animal's past and their future, and to help as many animals in need as we can through not only rescue, but educating and assisting our communities.
Animals
11
Humane Society of Broward County Inc
Advocating for and improving the lives of animals by providing adoptions, community services, and education.
Animals
12
Babies of Homelessness
Babies of Homelessness provides diapers, wipes, and formula to local families in need.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oasis - a Haven for Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bonnie Brae. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$40,803Human Services$21,800Youth Development$15,000Animals$7,000Education$5,000Philanthropy$2,039
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.
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.
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 38% of income from government
- Bonnie Brae — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEARTWORKS INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 205555551 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on HEARTWORKS INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Footprints Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Footprints Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines