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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.

$266k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$61,500
Organizations funded a year
13 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Church of the Good Shepherd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesReligionEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$200k5%
FY202422$156k14%
FY202326$161k15%
FY202230$249k37%
FY202119$149k0%
FY202021$139k10%
FY201919$149k42%
FY201813$138k31%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$408kReligion$352kEducation$272kPhilanthropy$147kHealth$122kEnvironment$115kHuman Services$110kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
MI
NY
MA
SD
MD
NC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Christian Community Association of South Florida Inc$254,50054%
Hope Rural School Inc$175,00091%
Project Lift Inc$123,00081%
Boys & Girls Club of Martin County$77,20060%
Florida Oceanographic Society Inc$77,05091%
Sailfish Point Foundation Inc$45,40091%
Lake Sunapee Protective Association$38,40061%
Palm City Presbyterian Church$35,0002n/a
St Labre Indian School$31,0009n/a
Mother Caroline Academy & Education Center$27,50090%
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Church of the Good Shepherd by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Christian Community Association of South Florida Inc$254,50054%
Hope Rural School Inc$175,00091%
Project Lift Inc$123,00081%
Boys & Girls Club of Martin County$77,20060%
Florida Oceanographic Society Inc$77,05091%
Sailfish Point Foundation Inc$45,40091%
Lake Sunapee Protective Association$38,40061%
Palm City Presbyterian Church$35,0002n/a
St Labre Indian School$31,0009n/a
Mother Caroline Academy & Education Center$27,50090%
Safespace Inc$25,00040%
Samaritan's Purse$25,00020%
Mary's Shelter of the Treasure Coast Inc$25,00061%
Christian Community Care Center Inc$20,00031%
St Josephs Indian School$14,0003n/a
John Hay Estate at the Fells$12,00050%
Cancer Research Institute Inc$10,00040%
Library Foundation of Martin County$6,00060%
Lake Sunapee Rowing Club$5,0001n/a
Place of Hope Inc$5,00010%
Integrare Inc$4,00041%
The New London Hospital Association Inc$3,00010%
Acton Congregational Church$2,0002n/a
Give & Go Foundation$2,0001n/a
Florida Sheriffs Association Inc$50050%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($418k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Church of the Good Shepherd supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Christian Community Association of South Florida Inc: $254,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetHope Rural School Inc: $175,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetProject Lift Inc: $123,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Martin County: $77,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Oceanographic Society Inc: $77,050 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSailfish Point Foundation Inc: $45,400 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetLake Sunapee Protective Association: $38,400 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMother Caroline Academy & Education Center: $27,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSafespace Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Shelter of the Treasure Coast Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetChristian Community Care Center Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJohn Hay Estate at the Fells: $12,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCancer Research Institute Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLibrary Foundation of Martin County: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPlace of Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIntegrare Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe New London Hospital Association Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Association Inc: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie IncFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Church of the Good Shepherd?

Find your warmest path to Church of the Good Shepherd through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Church of the Good Shepherd

How much does Church of the Good Shepherd give?
Church of the Good Shepherd reported 24 grants totaling $266,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Church of the Good Shepherd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (25%), Religion (22%), Education (17%).
Who are Church of the Good Shepherd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Christian Community Association of South Florida Inc ($255k), Hope Rural School Inc ($175k), Project Lift Inc ($123k).
Does Church of the Good Shepherd fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Church of the Good Shepherd accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Church of the Good Shepherd?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, The Lichtenberger Foundation Inc.
Where is Church of the Good Shepherd based?
Church of the Good Shepherd is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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