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SOLES FOR JESUS INC

EIN 27-1338879 MILWAUKEE, WI

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Revenue 2024
$845,025
Expenses 2024
$774,213

Program services were 78.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
8835 W HEATHER AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SOLES FOR JESUS EXISTS TO SHARE THE LOVE OF CHRIST BY DISTRIBUTING SHOES TO THE UNDERSERVED IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA.

  • SOLES FOR JESUS COLLECTS NEW AND USED SHOES IN THE UNITED STATES THROUGH SHOE DRIVES AS WELL AS CORPORATE AND PERSONAL SHOE DONATIONS. SHOES ARE DISTRIBUTED IN AFRICA TO THOSE IN GREAT NEED. EACH PAIR OF SHOES IS GIVEN WITH A GOSPEL TRACT IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE RECIPIENTS. IN 2024, APPROXIMATELY 86,000 PAIRS OF SHOES WERE SHIPPED VIA OCEAN FREIGHT TO BURUNDI, GUINEA, GUINEA BISSAU, LIBERIA, BOTSWANA, BURKINA FASO, SWAZILAND, AND LESOTHO.

    Expenses $608,237 · Grants $45,238

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Adriana Studer

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $100,804
    From this org
    $100,804
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jason Held

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elizabeth Fischer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeffrey Adams

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michelle Novak

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $845,025
    Expenses
    $774,213
    Contributions
    $725,031
    Grants paid
    $45,238
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $779,528
    Expenses
    $671,836
    Contributions
    $629,722
    Grants paid
    $51,122
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $642,850
    Expenses
    $620,185
    Contributions
    $540,508
    Grants paid
    $32,445

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $651,726
    Expenses
    $543,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $652,624

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $512,916
    Expenses
    $452,794
    Assets (EOY)
    $522,746

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $599,185
    Expenses
    $473,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $422,506

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,201
    Expenses
    $452,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $296,768

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $473,884
    Expenses
    $381,637
    Assets (EOY)
    $310,878

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $468,998
    Expenses
    $468,422
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,594

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $408,637
    Expenses
    $310,793
    Assets (EOY)
    $197,383

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $294,135
    Expenses
    $317,699
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,817

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $204,521
    Expenses
    $182,722
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,114

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $116,913
    Expenses
    $113,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,453

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.