· Private foundation
Jane and Tad Shepard Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAMIE'S POPPY PLATES | $8,750 |
| TEENS INC | $8,750 |
| ACTIVE CHILDREN EXCEL PROJECT INC | $8,750 |
| FUTURE URBAN LEADERS | $8,750 |
| IMAGINE A DAY INC | $8,750 |
| HOPEKIDS MINNESOTA | $8,750 |
| WAYSIDE FOOD PROGRAMS | $8,750 |
| THE GROVE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| GOOD GRIEF | $3,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds REACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BEAMING INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jane and Tad Shepard Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane and Tad Shepard Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc: 40% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc: 39% of income from government
How this is measured
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