Kentucky · Nonprofit
FOOT FORWARD INC
FOOT FORWARD INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,104 to it, the largest being ALICE G STROBEL CHARITABLE TRUST CREATED U/A/D JUNE 22 2011 ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $256k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Foot Forward Inc does
Mission
We work with Tanzanian women Artisans as they create beautiful, handmade artisan products. We provide a fair wage for their exceptional work, along with unique opportunities which enrich their lives and those of their families (this includes clean water accessible to them and their families, access to tools and equipment for micro-business, school fees and uniforms, and English lessons). Ultimately, after expenses, proceeds from artisan products are invested in US charities which invest in clean water, girls education, and women and children's health. We have no paid employees and though costs for starting up the organization have been higher (with potential for revenue from artisan products uncertain) we endeavor to ensure that we are achieving important social good for the Artisans and the charitable beneficiaries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ARTISAN PROGRAM: Our commitment to female empowerment and economic mobility has a deep and lasting impact on the 30 women Artisans currently engaged in our program in East Africa (Tanzania), allowing them to structurally exit poverty while preserving their rich cultural heritage. Through this program, we partner directly with local women to produce handcrafted, high-quality African Maasai sandals, jewelry, dog collars, and other accessories. These items utilize traditional, intricate beadwork coupled with sustainable, up-cycled materials-such as thread salvaged from grain bags and plastic templates given a second life. By providing a reliable marketplace and ensuring the payment of fair wages, we empower these women with financial stability and independence, allowing them to better provide for their households and families. The creative and collaborative process builds robust self-esteem, cultivating leadership skills that the Artisans carry forward into all aspects of their community lives. Furthermore, our investment extends beyond commerce into active educational and enrichment support for the Artisans. This access to education significantly increases the likelihood that these…
$78,453 spent$90,638 earned by the program32% of program spendingPERIOD OUTREACH & MENSTRUAL HEALTH INITIATIVE (UHURUPADS): Operated the 'UhuruPads' initiative, Africa's first compostable sanitary pad production and humanitarian distribution program based in East Africa (Tanzania). This initiative directly provides dignified employment for local women who manufacture eco-friendly, 100% compostable menstrual pads. Through this targeted outreach period, approximately 8,000 school-aged girls were directly impacted and two dozen local women were empowered to present vital menstrual health education within their communities. The program successfully coordinates the distribution of these essential hygiene products to girls in need, removing a critical barrier to education and ensuring they can remain in school with confidence and dignity. In addition to physical supplies, the initiative delivers vital health, wellness, and menstrual hygiene education, alongside providing new undergarments to program participants to restore confidence, promote health equity, and foster long-term community empowerment.
$121,005 spent49% of program spendingSCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: Driven by the foundational belief and Swahili proverb, 'Elimu ni mali ambayo adui hawezi kuiteka'-Education is a possession that no enemy can take-our Scholarship Program provides critical academic access and educational enrichment to young women and the children of our local community partners in East Africa (Tanzania), supporting 5 students in full to be able to pursue college. Realizing that secondary and higher education costs create an insurmountable barrier for vulnerable families, this initiative provides targeted tuition support, fees, and essential academic resources. By securing these educational pathways, we ensure that talented and driven students can remain continuously enrolled in school, build lasting self-reliance, and unlock their full leadership potential. This program acts as a vital bridge to long-term empowerment, dramatically increasing multi-generational literacy rates and economic resiliency within the community. Through deep relationship-building, mentorship, and financial transparency, our team works to break down gender disparities in education, helping young women cultivate the confidence, skills, and agency necessary to build a…
$45,864 spent19% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $245,322.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $40k to $88k (+118%).
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.
82% of FOOT FORWARD INC’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. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Laura Chauvin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $13k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 FOOT FORWARD 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
FOOT FORWARD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 FOOT FORWARD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 57% · 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
52% of FOOT FORWARD INC'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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.
Against its field
FOOT FORWARD INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FOOT FORWARD INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOOT FORWARD INC: 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 FOOT FORWARD INC?
- FOOT FORWARD INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,104 to it, the largest being ALICE G STROBEL CHARITABLE TRUST CREATED U/A/D JUNE 22 2011 ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOOT FORWARD INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $69,104 in grants to FOOT FORWARD INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOT FORWARD INC?
- ALICE G STROBEL CHARITABLE TRUST CREATED U/A/D JUNE 22 2011 is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOT FORWARD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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