Tennessee · Nonprofit
SOLES4SOULS INC
SOLES4SOULS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,531,967 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($876,703). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88M
- Funders on record
- 122
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Soles4souls Inc does
Mission
To create opportunity for people through shoes and clothing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Soles4souls facilitates the donation and collection of new and used shoes, new and used clothing and other relief items from footwear, clothing and other manufacturers, retailers and individuals. These items are distributed to people in need locally, nationally and internationally through a network of volunteer organizations and in cooperation with other charitable organizations, referred to as distribution partners, who work on soles4souls' behalf to distribute these items providing relief to individuals living in poverty or affected by natural disasters. Through this extensive network, soles4souls has distributed shoes, clothing and other relief supplies to people in more than 137 countries. During fiscal year 2025, in their 4relief programs, soles4souls distributed 838,457 pairs of shoes, 687,598 pieces of clothing and 498,243 pieces of other essentials to those in need around the world. Additionally, soles4souls, in our 4opportunity programs, distributed 4,015,437 pairs of shoes, 2,045,658 pieces of clothing and other essential items providing opportunities for job and income creation around the world.soles4souls partners with non-governmental organizations ("ngos") in haiti,…
$57,045,805 spent$10,715,629 earned by the program70% of program spendingDuring fy25, soles4souls continued its partnership with street business school. Through this collaboration, our partners trained 86 entrepreneurs in the dominican republic, 58 in haiti, and 8 in the philippines. Additionally, four soles4souls employees, three of whom are women, were certified as trainers.more than 1.25 million children in the united states are experiencing homelessness. Addressing this critical need, soles4souls continues to respond with our 4everykid program, an initiative that provides a pair of new athletic shoes to k-12 students in the united states who are experiencing homelessness. We know that when children have their basic needs met, they feel more confident, can participate in sports, and stay focused on their learning. During fy25, soles4souls distributed 112,648 pairs of shoes and 264,891 pairs of socks to students experiencing homelessness through 270 partners nationwide.a core component of the soles4souls mission is providing relief to people impacted by natural and humanitarian disasters. During fy25, soles4souls provided apparel, footwear and additional accessories to respond to domestic and international relief efforts. Through its robust partner…
$23,976,007 spentof which $21,070,081 as grants$110,648 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $81,021,812.
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 2019 to 2020, from $23M to $35M (+54%).
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: 2021 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of SOLES4SOULS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Earnest Teaster Iii
President & CEO
Board chair
Aaron Belville
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $253k → $1.2M.
24 of 122 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 SOLES4SOULS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 122 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
SOLES4SOULS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
83% 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 SOLES4SOULS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 53% · 2019 44% · 2020 25% · 2021 19% · 2022 18% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of SOLES4SOULS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
73% of SOLES4SOULS 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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 33 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
SOLES4SOULS INC's revenue grew 26% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SOLES4SOULS 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Soles4souls Europe Stichting (Rsin Xxx-Xx-Xxxx) · exempt
- Soles4souls Canada (Incoporation # 962795-2) · corp_trust
- Soles4souls Asia Ltd (Eun 201930535r) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOLES4SOULS INC?
- SOLES4SOULS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,531,967 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($876,703). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOLES4SOULS INC have?
- IRS filings report 122 organizations giving $5,531,967 in grants to SOLES4SOULS INC, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOLES4SOULS INC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $876,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOLES4SOULS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 122 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