Soles For Jesus

Name

Soles For Jesus

Website

https://www.solesforjesus.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations

Core offering

Soles For Jesus is a nonprofit organization that collects new and used shoes and distributes them to people in need across African countries. The organization's core activity is the solicitation, collection, and physical delivery of footwear as humanitarian aid to underserved populations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Shoe Collection and Distribution Program

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights1 record

Others

• World Vision: Large international humanitarian non-profit whose child-sponsorship and community programs include footwear and clothing distribution in African countries. Comparable as a major multi-program aid organization operating in the same recipient geographies.
• Catholic Relief Services: Large faith-based humanitarian agency running relief and development programs across Africa that include clothing and footwear distribution. Relevant as a large, established humanitarian-aid counterpart operating in the same recipient geographies.
• Buckner International: Faith-based non-profit running humanitarian aid programs including shoe and clothing distribution to children and families in developing regions, including Africa. Relevant adjacency through humanitarian shoe/clothing distribution to similar beneficiary populations.
• Goodwill Industries International: Non-profit that collects donated goods (including shoes) and resells/distributes them, with international programs that place footwear in developing communities. Comparable as a donation-based, used-goods redistribution non-profit in the apparel/footwear vertical.

Direct peers

• Soles4Souls: Non-profit that collects new and gently-used shoes and distributes them to people in need across multiple countries, including African markets. Operates the same charitable shoe-distribution model as Soles For Jesus and is the most direct comparable.
• Samaritan's Feet: Non-profit dedicated to providing shoes to children and impoverished individuals globally, including Africa. Closely mirrors Soles For Jesus's model of collecting and distributing footwear to under-resourced populations.
• Share International (Shoe Share): Non-profit focused on distributing new and gently-used shoes to children in need, with active African country programs. Closely comparable to Soles For Jesus in both mission (footwear-focused aid) and operating model (collection + distribution).

Broad incumbents

• TOMS Shoes: For-profit footwear brand historically built around a one-for-one donation model, distributing shoes to people in need across multiple developing regions including Africa. While commercially structured, its charitable shoe-distribution activities directly overlap with Soles For Jesus's mission.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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