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Good Shepherd Fund-Ima-Main at a glance

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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.

$508k
Granted FY2024still arriving
76
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$116k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.1MEducation$512kAnimals$448kPublic Safety & Disaster$181kHuman Services$148kFood & Nutrition$128kHealth$125kArts & Culture$121kOther$0
02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $267k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION$116,000
ROANOKE COLLEGE$51,000
SELC$50,000
LITTLE HANDS VA$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
CONTRIBUTION TO THE CULTURE FOUNDATION$10,000
ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA$10,000
THE WELL COLLECTIVE$10,000
PGA MISSIONS GAIT$5,000
ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION - ANNUAL$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PERC INC: $10k → 9%THE WELL COLLECTIVE: $10k → 22%LITTLE HANDS VA: $50k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $5k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $1k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $1k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $1k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $1k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ND
MN
NY
WY
IA
IN
NJ
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 79 repeat orgs$641k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
25

Total granted

$2.6M
$440k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-13%

Still filing today

59%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • JR
    JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $388k · revenue +154%
  • FC
    FLAGLER COLLEGE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $214k · revenue +42%
  • CR
    CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +645%

Funded once

  • CO
    CALL OF THE UPLANDS QUAIL FOREVER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • NR
    NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -13%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $42k
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.

1
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
2
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

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.

Environment
3
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
4
Virginia Environmental Endowment

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,…

Environment
5
Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment
6
Virginia Association of Museums

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".

Arts & Culture
7
New River Land Trust

To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.

Environment
8
Wild Virginia Incorporated

Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.

Environment
9
Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Foundation Inc

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.

—
10
Virginia Living Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Virginias United Land Trusts

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…

Environment
12
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 113 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
44/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE TOWN UNITED INC: $165,000 · OtherHOPE TOWN UNITED INCSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $115,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIA (CONSERVATION WORK): $105,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIA (CONSERVATION WORK)THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VA (CAPITAL): $100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VA (CAPITAL)FEEDMORE - CENTRAL VA FOOD BANK: $89,280 · OtherFEEDMORE - CENTRAL VA FOOD BANKTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY(OF VIRGINIA): $72,000 · Other+68 more: $1,010,350 · Other+68 moreJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $387,500 · EnvironmentJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATIONCAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentCAPITAL REGION LAND CONS…THE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: $82,500 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR CONSERVAT…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 · EnvironmentCAPITAL TREES: $27,500 · Environment+7 more: $54,500 · Environment+7 moreFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $213,500 · EducationFLAGLER COLLEG…ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $105,000 · EducationST CATHERINE'S…ROANOKE COLLEGE: $57,500 · EducationROANOKE COLLEG…ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15,300 · Education+5 more: $31,500 · Education+5 moreDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $120,000 · AnimalsDelta Wat…BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $78,000 · AnimalsBONEFISH …THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA: $47,500 · AnimalsTHE WILDL…THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $10,000 · Animals+2 more: $12,000 · AnimalsLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Well Collective: $10,000 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $10,000 · Human ServicesP E R C INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsVIRGINIA CAPITAL TRAIL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $7,500 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureChildren's Museum of Richmond: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,656,630Environment$710,000Education$422,800Animals$267,500Human Services$80,000Recreation & Sports$57,500Arts & Culture$40,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $387,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $213,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE TOWN UNITED INC: $165,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetCAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $125,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $120,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: $82,500 over 6y, 31% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $78,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $57,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA: $47,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSupportWorks Housing: $34,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $33,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $31,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL TREES: $27,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER: $18,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY PLANET INCORPORATED: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAPLASTIC ANEMIA & MDS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $13,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSouthside ReLeaf: $11,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $10,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Well Collective: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE: $7,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFONKOZE USA INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF VIRGINIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA CAPITAL TRAIL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Foundat…Herndon FoundationThe Mary Morton Parso…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Robins FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Carmax FoundationMassey Family Foundat…Tesco FoundationUniversal Leaf Founda…Robert G Cabell III a…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…
The Community Foundation IncVA50× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fund-Ima-Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Good Shepherd Fund-Ima-Main. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 113 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home