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FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC

FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,708 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ($575,858). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$400k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$816k
Net assets
$176k
1/5 repeat funders
01What it does

What Feet in 2 Worlds Inc does

Mission

To train early and mid-career journalists in radio, podcasts and online news to cover immigration stories, build cultural competence in news organizations and advance their careers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To produce podcasts, an online magazine and digital stories and work with a range of media partners to ensure feet in 2 world's journalism reaches a wide and diverse audience online and on the air. To support efforts to use nontraditional platforms to distribute news and information and combat misinformation aimed at immigrant audiences.

    $221,844 spent$399,951 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $221,844.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($281k) Expenses 100 ($305k) Net assets 100 ($88k)2025 Revenue 142 ($400k) Expenses 100 ($304k) Net assets 199 ($176k)
20242025
Revenue (142)Expenses (100)Net assets (199)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 2024 to 2025, from $96k to $185k (+92%).

$96k
$185k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$23k
’24
$96k
’25
7.3
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.

Board chair

Valeria Fernandez

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed88
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $89k → $258k.

From the IRS filings of FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC’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 IN 2 WORLDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

71% 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 IN 2 WORLDS INC.

71%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.

IL
NY
CT
CA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 IN 2 WORLDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)42% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 14%Fundraising 13%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC?
FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,708 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ($575,858). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $815,708 in grants to FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC?
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS is the largest funder on record, with $575,858 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 5 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