Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT
THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $466,650 to it, the largest being FOOD CITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($220,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $183k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $467k
- Net assets
- $54k
What The Happy Shoes Project does
Mission
Inspiring cancer patients to keep walking and providing them resources to help while going through treatment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Happy Shoes Project inspires cancer patients to keep walking with encouragement, support, and inspiration. Totes filled with items to make cancer treatment more comfortable and positive are distributed. Kids with cancer and new backpack program - backpacks are filled with items inclucing an illustrated book and coloring book to help them through treatment.
$153,866 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $153,866.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $89k to $26k (−71%).
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.
111% of THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $95k.
From the IRS filings of THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT’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
THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 37% · 2022 58% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
53% of THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT: 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 THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT?
- THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $466,650 to it, the largest being FOOD CITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($220,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $466,650 in grants to THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT?
- FOOD CITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT 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.
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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 2021–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing