· Private foundation
Jane and Tad Shepard Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEENS INC | $8,750 |
| HOPEKIDS MINNESOTA | $8,750 |
| IMAGINE A DAY INC | $8,750 |
| ACTIVE CHILDREN EXCEL PROJECT INC | $8,750 |
| FUTURE URBAN LEADERS | $8,750 |
| MAMIE'S POPPY PLATES | $8,750 |
| WAYSIDE FOOD PROGRAMS | $8,750 |
| THE GROVE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| GOOD GRIEF | $3,750 |
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 (FY17–23, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
Future Urban Leaders8× · 2018–2025 · $92k · revenue +287%
Americas Grow-A-Row6× · 2017–2023 · $74k · revenue +205%- MPMAMIE'S POPPY PLATES7× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- NCNONPROFIT CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INCone grant, 2017 · $15k
- GLGIRLS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $12k
- RCREACH COUNSELING SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +99%
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 mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.
Our mission is to prevent, interrupt and repair cycles of abuse and neglect within families.Our vision is safe children, healthy families, thriving communities.
To support and strengthen the youth and families of westbrook, ct through coordinating and providing a comprehensive delivery system of prevention, intervention, treatment, and follow up services
The mission of Childs Place is to listen to children in a safe developmentally sensitive and legally sound manner; to unite professionals in a coordinated response to child abuse; to guide children and families toward healing through…
Building a coalition to create Milwaukee most dynamic neighborhood.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mamie's Poppy Plates. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 Future Urban Leaders ↗
- Who funds Americas Grow-A-Row ↗
- Who funds MAMIE'S POPPY PLATES ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
- Who funds GOOD GRIEF INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Best Friends of Neenah-Menasha In ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds REACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BEAMING INC ↗
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: J J Keller Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Jane and Tad Shepard Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% 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.
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