Share Your Soles Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
364453870
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
7084484469
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Emergency Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,951
Expenses
$57,262
Assets
$16,348
Liabilities
$20,261

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • RAMONA F PURDY (Executive Dir.)
  • CATHY BIGGANNE (Treasurer)
  • ANDREW LIPOWSKI (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Share your soles, inc provides gently worn shoes to people who are living in needy corners of the world.

What it reported doing in 2025

Footwear collection & distribution: share your soles collected, conditioned and distributed thousands of gently worn shoes to needy children around the world, while providing volunteer opportunities to adults and children who desire to make a difference. Most children who receive shoes are orphaned, handicapped, or live in severe poverty. The organization also serves as an educational facility for the various volunteer groups. The groups include church groups, boy scouts, girl scouts, schools and other community groups.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 67.1%; rating input score 67

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.24; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -14.8% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -21.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 67.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.