· Private foundation
The Footprints Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY18–19, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against -11% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- RWROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $16k · revenue +57%
OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +112%- TBTRI-STATE BASSET HOUND RESCUE2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- HIHeartworks Incone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -11%
- KCK Collentineone grant, 2018 · $5k
- PAPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +13%
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.
When a family is in crisis, Bridges is there to offer support by providing respite and host homes for children in our community. Children visit respite homes for several hours after school or on weekends to enjoy the benefit of a nurturing…
To provide a no kill shelter in order to rescue and find homes for displaced animals
The mission of almost home dog rescue of nj is to care for and place abandoned and abused dogs into caring homes.
The united way of hudson county is a non-profit community resource with the sole mission to do whatever we can to help the poor, the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the homeless people of hudson county.
Empowering women and children on their path out of homelessness through hospitality, housing, and hope.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
Housing for low-income elderly tenants.
Compassionately serving in community so that all are free to choose abundant life.
The prevention of homelessness. the bridge fund offers clients at risk of homelessness a combination of financial assistance through interest free loans or grants and financial counseling.
To serve the expanding and evolving in-home needs of residents of northern nj by delivering a continuum of care for clients and families through the services of a highly trained caring and compassionate workforce.
The mission of bridge communities is to transition homeless families to self-sufficiency by working with partners to provide mentoring, housing, and supportive services.
Baypath humane society of hopkinton connects people and animals to build a compassionate community. we provide shelter, care, and enrichment to animals in need, help them find loving homes, and promote well-being through outreach,…
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 House of Puddles Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Heartworks Inc ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE BASSET HOUND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHNJ INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BONNIE BRAE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds House of Puddles Inc ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Bonnie Brae — 3% of income from government
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.