· Private foundation
Church of the Good Shepherd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MARTIN-ST LUCIE | $61,500 |
| HOPE RURAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| PROJECT LYFT | $20,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY | $12,000 |
| USSCMC | $11,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER | $10,000 |
| PALM CITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SAFESPACE INC | $10,000 |
| LIGHT OF THE WORLD | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE MARTIN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DENTAL | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC5× · 2017–2022 · $255k · revenue +29%
- HRHOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +65%
- PLPROJECT LIFT INC8× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +456%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
- BRBARSTOW REED SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF DARTMOUTHone grant, 2023 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…
Sonshine day preschools mission is to partner with the home and church to provide a loving, secure christian environment where dedicated staff care for, nuture, and teach young children to know, honor, and serve god.
The vision of Trinity College of Florida is to be the premier provider of a multifaceted and diversified higher learning four-year college which cultivates spiritual disciplines such as scripture study and directing learning toward what is…
The mission of the samaritan health and wellness center, inc. is to reclaim the healing ministry of jesus christ by providing affordable, professional primary health care and counseling for the working uninsured and under insured in lee…
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
The mission of naples christian academy is to partner with christian parents to develop students with hearts impassioned to love god, minds disciplined to think biblically, and hands prepared to serve.
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Hospice of the treasure coast, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Lighthouse christian school exists to glorify god by providing quality, christ-centered education that will nurture students to become spiritually minded, academically versed, socially balanced, and equipped to make a positive impact in…
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christian Community Association of South Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARTIN / ST LUCIE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S SHELTER OF THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHN HAY ESTATE AT THE FELLS ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Library Foundation of Martin County ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRARE INC ↗
- Who funds The New London Hospital Association Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Lichtenberger Foundation Inc · The Albert M Covelli Foundation · United Way of Martin County Inc · Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Church of the Good Shepherd funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Safespace Inc — 25% of income from government
- Hope Rural School Inc — 6% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Christian Community Care Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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