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FEET FIRST

FEET FIRST (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,270 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($44,523). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2022
$8k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$89k
Net assets
$60k
3/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Feet First does

Mission

Feet First promotes walkable communities, and empowers people throughout washington to connect to walk the world by foot.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Policy committee - a board run policy and advocacy program. In 2022, comment letters were submitted for several major puget sound projects and planning initiatives.

    $3,673 spent
    25% of program spending
  2. Walking events - Feet First sponsors free community walks every week.

    $3,673 spent
    25% of program spending
  3. Safe routes to school - Feet First produces a monthly e-newsletter for dissemination to the safe routs to school action network.

    $3,673 spent
    25% of program spending
  4. Washington state pedestrian safety council - Feet First has a representative on the council who participates in the council's work program and attends the monthly meetings in olympia (in person or virtually).

    $3,673 spent
    25% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,692.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($39k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2018 Revenue 85 ($41k) Expenses 51 ($20k) Net assets 165 ($54k)2019 Revenue 154 ($74k) Expenses 174 ($68k) Net assets 184 ($60k)2020 Revenue 182 ($87k) Expenses 240 ($94k) Net assets 164 ($53k)2021 Revenue 165 ($79k) Expenses 172 ($67k) Net assets 205 ($67k)2022 Revenue 17 ($8k) Expenses 38 ($15k) Net assets 185 ($60k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (17)Expenses (38)Net assets (185)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $36k to $54k (+52%).

$36k
$54k
$61k
$56k
$67k
$61k
201720182019202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of FEET FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
$21k
’18
$6k
’19
−$7k
’20
$12k
’21
−$6k
’22
12
months of
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.

20172018201920202021
Listed1210999
Joined·+0+3+0+1
No longer listed·2401
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $27.

Funder
'17
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
2
3
3
3
1

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 FEET FIRST’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

FEET FIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 FEET FIRST.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2020 77% · 2021 58% · 2022 63% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

89% of FEET FIRST'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.

WA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FEET FIRST's revenue fell 83% between 2017 and 2022.

Operating margin−78% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−30% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

Government funding FEET FIRST receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $134 on record.

State$134
03
05
Top programs
  • DEDICATED$134

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like FEET FIRST

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FEET FIRST?
FEET FIRST (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,270 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($44,523). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FEET FIRST have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $89,270 in grants to FEET FIRST, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FEET FIRST?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $44,523 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FEET FIRST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing