· Private foundation
Good Shepherd Fund-Ima-Main
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $116,000 |
| ROANOKE COLLEGE | $51,000 |
| LITTLE HANDS VA | $50,000 |
| SELC | $50,000 |
| FEEDMORE - CENTRAL VA FOOD BANK | $31,280 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| LITTLE GIANTS SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $15,000 |
| THE WELL COLLECTIVE | $10,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| CONTRIBUTION TO THE CULTURE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PGA MISSIONS GAIT | $5,000 |
| ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL - ANNUAL | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +42% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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
- JRJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $388k · revenue +154%
- FCFLAGLER COLLEGE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $214k · revenue +42%
- CRCAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +645%
Funded once
- COCALL OF THE UPLANDS QUAIL FOREVERone grant, 2022 · $50k
- NRNEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $42k
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.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.
To connect people to the marine environment, inspiring a more sustainable future. we aspire to be a driver in conservation, education, tourism, and sustainability, leading the charge to save wildlife and their ecosystems.
The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…
Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Southside ReLeaf. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 113 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 JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE TOWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL TREES ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
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 Inc · Herndon Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Massey Family Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Universal Leaf Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition
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 Good Shepherd Fund-Ima-Main 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust 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.