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FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY
FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($85,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Footwear Innovation Foundation Company does
Mission
The footwear innovation foundation's mission is to advance innovation across the global footwear industry by supporting new ideas, research, and collaboration. The foundation empowers innovators, entrepreneurs, academics, and industry leaders by providing mentorship, resources, and platforms that accelerate solutions to major industry challenges, including sustainability, materials innovation, manufacturing, and talent development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2025, the foundation launched and hosted the footwear launchpad innovation competition, a program designed to identify and accelerate promising new ideas for the footwear industry. The competition connected innovators with industry experts, mentors, and business leaders to refine concepts, develop market understanding, and explore pathways to commercialization. The program provided education, industry data, and mentorship to help participants transform early-stage ideas into viable solutions for the footwear sector.
$160,955 spent100% of program spendingIn 2025, the foundation published the 2025 footwear carbon report, the first comprehensive analysis focused specifically on greenhouse gas emissions associated with footwear production. The report provides industry stakeholders with baseline data, research insights, and practical guidance to better understand environmental impacts across materials, manufacturing, and supply chains.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $160,955.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Andy Polk
Executive director
Board chair
Andy Gilbert
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY?
- FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($85,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $85,000 in grants to FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOTWEAR INNOVATION FOUNDATION COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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