How much did JANE AND TAD SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of JANE AND TAD SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

domestic abuse

2019

domestic abuse

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$8,750

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

TEENS INC$8,750
HOPEKIDS MINNESOTA$8,750
MAMIE'S POPPY PLATES$8,750
ACTIVE CHILDREN EXCEL PROJECT INC$8,750
FUTURE URBAN LEADERS$8,750
WAYSIDE FOOD PROGRAMS$8,750
IMAGINE A DAY INC$8,750
THE GROVE PROJECT$5,000
GOOD GRIEF$3,750

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 56% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$658k · 16 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$658k

$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%

+311%

Still filing today

44%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEmploymentCrime & LegalOther

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

FUTURE URBAN LEADERS
8× · 2018–2025 · $92k · revenue +287%
MP
MAMIE'S POPPY PLATES
7× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +126%
WF
WAYSIDE FOOD PROGRAMS
5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +99%

Funded once

BB
BREAKING BARRIERS WE WORK SHOREDITCH
one grant, 2018 · $15k
NC
NON-PROFIT CENTER OF MILWAUKEE
one grant, 2017 · $15k
GL
GIRLS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
one grant, 2017 · $12k

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

04Your field

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 Center for Community Transitions

CCT strengthens our community by helping people with criminal records find a healthier and more productive way of living. Our work provides employment and transition services: supports alternatives to incarceration: and restores and…

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Safe Journey

To enhance empowerment, self-efficacy, safety and justice for women and their children who are victims of domestic violence, by providing free confidential support services and offering awareness and prevention education and information to…

Human Services

Center for Domestic Peace

Center for Domestic Peace mobilizes individuals and communities to transform our world so domestic violence no longer exists, creating greater safety, justice, and equality.

Human Services

Safe Harbor Family Crisis Center Ltd

Support and Respond to the needs of victims of domestic violence and their dependents.

Human Services

Safe Harbor

Safe harbor provides the support that survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking need to overcome their crisis and to transform their lives.

Human Services

Domestic Abuse Intervention Services

Domestic abuse intervention services offers a wide array of crisis intervention and community education/prevention programs, including a 24-hour help line, programming for children from violent homes, legal advocacy, support groups,…

Human Services

Safe Embrace

Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…

Health

Amberlys Place

To provide advocacy for victims of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and elder abuse.

Crime & Legal

The Dwelling Place

Providing safe housing and holistic programs for women and children escaping abuse.

Human Services

Hubbard House Inc

Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.

Human Services

Town Clock Community Development

Town clock community development corporation provides affordable homes and supportive services to survivors of domestic violence and their children.

Housing & Shelter

Open Door Counseling Center

Open Door Counseling Center is a HUD Certified Comprehensive Housing Counseling Agency to educate and assist underserved households to obtain and retain affordable permanent housing; provide immediate basic human needs for community…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harbor House Domestic Abuse and the most unlike its peers is Fairfield County's Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/12

Grantees still filing

10/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$439,350Youth Development$100,250Philanthropy$91,500Food & Nutrition$42,500Health$37,500Human Services$15,000Employment$15,000

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.

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.

J J Keller Foundation IncWI18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J J Keller Foundation Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Robert & Susan Brown Family Foundation · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 organisation JANE AND TAD SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FUTURE URBAN LEADERS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823290408 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FUTURE URBAN LEADERS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Jane and Tad Shepard Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jane and Tad Shepard Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JANE AND TAD SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jane and Tad Shepard Family Foundation?

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JANE AND TAD SHEPARD FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jane and Tad Shepard Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph