How much does Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio give?

Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio reported 27 grants totaling $1,059,356 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Human Services (22%), Religion (17%).

Who are Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Special Olympics Ohio Inc ($865k), I Am Boundless Inc ($447k), Blossom Hill Inc ($319k).

Does Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio 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 Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fund Management Foundation Inc, Toledo Community Foundation Inc, The Cleveland Foundation.

Where is Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio based?

Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio is based in NJ.

Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio

Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio at a glance

· Private foundation

Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio

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.

$1.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$185k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MReligion$940kRecreation & Sports$888kHousing & Shelter$556kEmployment$236kPublic Benefit$165kFood & Nutrition$79kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k17 grants · $383k
$50k–250k7 grants · $656k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LIFETOWN COLUMBUS aka OSU CHABAD HOUSE	$185,000
I AM BOUNDLESS INC	$130,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC	$100,000
BLOSSOM HILL INC	$80,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION	$60,000
UCP OF GREATER CLEVELAND	$50,555
LOTT INDUSTRIES INC	$50,000
HEINZERLING COMMUNITY	$48,188
GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES	$35,000
NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE	$30,000
STEPPING STONES INC	$30,000
BITTERSWEET FARMS INC	$30,000
CRSI - CHAMPAIGN RESIDENTIAL SERVICES	$27,000
ROSE-MARY REHABILITATION & EDUCATION CTR	$25,000
NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.0M · 40 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.0M

$448k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+28%

Still filing today

75%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEmploymentHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $865k · revenue +10%
IA
I AM BOUNDLESS INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $447k · revenue +141%
BH
BLOSSOM HILL INC
4× · 2020–2025 · $319k · revenue +45%

Funded once

OC
OSU CHABAD HOUSE aka LIFETOWN COLUMBUS
one grant, 2023 · $185k
SC
SCHOTTENSTEIN CHABAD HOUSE
one grant, 2019 · $50k
CI
CHOICES IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC
one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +1%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Independent Living Inc

To establish places of residence for adults who are developmentally disabled so as to enable them to have available an environment which is condusive to their becoming and remaining productive members in society.

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Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services

Corporation for Independent Living

To create and sustain housing and other community resources that provide affordability, accessibility and independence to those in need.

Human Services

Residential Services Inc

Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.

Health

Residential Home for the Developmentally Disabled Inc

Built on a foundation of compassion and integrity, rhdd is dedicated to supporting individuals with a disability, to live and work in their communities.safe in a family environment, individuals are empowered to achieve personal and…

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Hiawatha Homes Inc

Provide residential, in-home, and community-based choices for people with disabilities.

—

Build Rehabilitation Industries Inc

Build rehabilitation industries, inc. dba buildability ("build"), provides services and support for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, assisting them to achieve greater independence and inclusion in their communities.

Employment

Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health

Hammer Residences Inc

To provide people with developmental disabilities the opportunity to experience life to its fullest.

Human Services

Temco Inc

Provide meaningful employment opportunities to persons with developmental disabilities in our service area

—

Job Options Inc

To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.

Employment

Mur-Ci Homes Inc

To improve the quality of life for individuals with severe/profound disabilities by assisting them through high-quality 24 hour, 7 days a week continuous care.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fairhaven Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/51

Grantees still filing

45/51

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,740,678Human Services$2,208,239Philanthropy$338,150Employment$156,575Environment$78,750Arts & Culture$35,240Health$21,707Recreation & Sports$8,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Community Fund Management Foundation IncOH49.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fund Management Foundation Inc · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Ohio Community Pooled Annuity Trust · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · Lott-Conlon Foundation Pfdn · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Licking County Foundation Inc · Harry C Moores 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohio. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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