North Carolina · Nonprofit
MIRACLEFEET
MIRACLEFEET (North Carolina) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,831,048 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($4,569,350). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 91
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Miraclefeet does
Mission
Miraclefeet increases access to proper treatment for children born with clubfoot in low- and middle-income countries through partnerships with local healthcare providers
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Miraclefeet is committed to eliminating untreated clubfoot, a common birth defect that causes one or both feet to turn inwards and down, making walking painful and difficult if left untreated. Affecting about 1 in 800 newborns worldwide, clubfoot is correctible with the ponseti method, the low-cost, nonsurgical standard of care routinely provided in advanced health systems. Miraclefeet works with local partners to increase access to treatment for children born with clubfoot in high-need countries worldwide where fewer than 1 in 5 have access to treatment. More than 95% of cases can be treated at an average cost of $500 per child. (see schedule o for continuation)Miraclefeet expands access to clubfoot treatment by partnering with local healthcare providers and governments, providing the organizational, technical, and financial resources needed to create and support clubfoot clinics in low- and middle-income countries. Miraclefeet funds are used to provide treatment supplies like foot abduction braces; hire clinic assistants to provide follow-up and parent education; execute clubfoot awareness campaigns; train healthcare workers in the ponseti method; and create early diagnosis and…
$7,738,777 spentof which $5,008,020 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,738,777.
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 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $18M (+47%).
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: 2017 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 8% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MIRACLEFEET’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Daphne Sorensen
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $293k → $4.6M.
20 of 91 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 MIRACLEFEET’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 91 funders by total. 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
MIRACLEFEET has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% 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 MIRACLEFEET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 15% · 2019 38% · 2020 53% · 2021 26% · 2022 41% · 2023 26% — growing more concentrated.
“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
54% of MIRACLEFEET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
MIRACLEFEET draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
MIRACLEFEET holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MIRACLEFEET
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIRACLEFEET: 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 MIRACLEFEET?
- MIRACLEFEET (North Carolina) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,831,048 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($4,569,350). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIRACLEFEET have?
- IRS filings report 91 organizations giving $18,831,048 in grants to MIRACLEFEET, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIRACLEFEET?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,569,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIRACLEFEET find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 91 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