· Private foundation
The Jim Foote Foundation
The purposes for which the Corporation is formed is to provide food for the starving and the hungry and otherwise provide relief and aid for the poor and disadvantaged, and to do any further act to implement the purposes of this Corporation.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| CINCINNATI FREESTORE FOODBANK | $12,000 |
| BREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA | $10,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS | $10,000 |
| MT HEALTHY ALLIANCE FOOD PANTRY | $8,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LGLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC3× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +61%
- BABREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +57%
Partnership With Native Americans2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- CHChild Hope Internationalone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue 0%
- MHMt Healthy Alliance Incone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -6%
- CACHRISTAN APPALACHIA PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
Our mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with partner food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.
To provide analysis and education on hunger issues in the United States and around the world.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
Provide aid to people in need worldwide
Children of Promise provides nutrition education and health care for children in need in developing nations.
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…
Bright Vision Orphan Care exists to help meet the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of orphans and vulnerable children in the village of Chamadenga in Malawi, Africa through the love of Jesus Christ.
The mission of ORPHANetwork is to partner with the the local church to break cycles of poverty amongst highly vulnerable children.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 Children International ↗
- Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Partnership With Native Americans ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Child Hope International ↗
- Who funds Mt Healthy Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jim Foote Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jim Foote Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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