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Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
88%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$300
Largest grant, FY2024
$500
Organizations funded a year
13 to 31
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$118k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 88% of the organizations Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
AnimalsEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving3$1k67%
FY202316$7k88%
FY202231$30k77%
FY202122$25k77%
FY202013$9k69%
FY201913$11kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Animals$82kPhilanthropy$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Snow Capped Shepherd Rescue Inc$7,25544%
Underdogs$4,70025%
Harleys Dream$4,50011%
Trevors Animal Rescue$2,10013%
Dfw Furgotten Friends$1,00012%
Shenandoah Shepherd Rescue Inc$1,00010%
Lolas Rescue$1,0001n/a
All Paws Matter$90020%
Tex-As Foundation$7201n/a
Emmas Wish Senior Dog Rescue$5001n/a
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All grantees of Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Snow Capped Shepherd Rescue Inc$7,25544%
Underdogs$4,70025%
Harleys Dream$4,50011%
Trevors Animal Rescue$2,10013%
Dfw Furgotten Friends$1,00012%
Shenandoah Shepherd Rescue Inc$1,00010%
Lolas Rescue$1,0001n/a
All Paws Matter$90020%
Tex-As Foundation$7201n/a
Emmas Wish Senior Dog Rescue$5001n/a
The Maxfund Inc$50010%
Raton Humane Society$10010%
Nikenos Second Chances Inc$1001n/a
Mazie's Mission$10010%
Durango Animal Connection$501n/a
Humane Society of the South Platte Valley Inc$2510%

Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSnow Capped Shepherd Rescue Inc: $7,255 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetUnderdogs: $4,700 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetHarleys Dream: $4,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTrevors Animal Rescue: $2,100 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDfw Furgotten Friends: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetShenandoah Shepherd Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAll Paws Matter: $900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Maxfund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaton Humane Society: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMazie's Mission: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of the South Platte Valley Inc: $25 over 1y, 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 11.

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationMN12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc

How much does Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc give?
Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc reported 3 grants totaling $1,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (98%), Philanthropy (2%).
Who are Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Snow Capped Shepherd Rescue Inc ($7k), Underdogs ($5k), Harleys Dream ($5k).
Does Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc 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 Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Network for Good.
Where is Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc based?
Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc is based in CO.

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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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