Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Emmas Footprints
Emmas Footprints (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,690 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($563,512). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $427k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $815k
- Net assets
- $278k
What Emmas Footprints does
Mission
When the unthinkable happens, the loss of a child through miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death, Emmas Footprints is here to walk families through their grief journey. We provide financial support for funeral costs, as well as emotional support through group meetings and one-on- one connections with our Care Team. Our goal is to sustain loss parents and their families through the fog of grief and care for them in every stage of healing and hope after loss.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Doula Services: We provide representations, professional doula support and care through the prevention portion of Emma's Footprints. Helping clients navigate their health system in order to promote healthier birth outcomes in the Erie community.
$146,560 spent46% of program spendingFuneral/burial/headstone costs: We provide financial assistance to families to help ease the financial strain a pregnancy or infant loss can place on them. Our assistance programs help with funeral and memorialization costs, as well as burial and cremation expenses. We have helped cover these costs for nearly 1,000 families to date.
$97,790 spent31% of program spendingCounseling services: We provide both financial assistance and referral services for professional counseling for those that have experienced an infant or pregnancy loss. We have served several families in this capacity. Payments are paid directly to the professional psychotherapist.
$63,758 spent20% of program spendingEmma Care Packages: We provide a care package to all families that contact us. Each care package comes with a journal, a New Testament Bible, and a necklace with the babys first initial, all tied together in a beautiful white linen pouch. We have provided several hundred Emma Care Packages to date.
$11,636 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $319,744.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $258k to $372k (+44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of Emmas Footprints’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $26k → $153k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Emmas Footprints’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Emmas Footprints leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Emmas Footprints.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 95% · 2021 85% · 2022 47% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
80% of Emmas Footprints's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
78% of Emmas Footprints's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $178k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $637k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Emmas Footprints is better cushioned than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Emmas Footprints
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Emmas Footprints: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Emmas Footprints?
- Emmas Footprints (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,690 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($563,512). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Emmas Footprints have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $814,690 in grants to Emmas Footprints, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Emmas Footprints?
- ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $563,512 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Emmas Footprints find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing