California · Private foundation
Shepher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $591k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $340,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Shepher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $591k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $585k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $766k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $599k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $409k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $711k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $401k | 88% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $1.4M | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Israeli-American Council | $5,398,100 | 9 | 14% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $850,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $454,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $405,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Israel Christian Nexus | $227,000 | 7 | 25% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $155,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $148,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Stand by Me Inc | $125,000 | 7 | 14% |
| The Gift of Life Corporation | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble | $43,450 | 7 | 7% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shepher Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Saidoff Foresight Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Israeli-American Council · The Milstein Family Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Shepher Foundation
- How much does Shepher Foundation give?
- Shepher Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $590,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shepher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (59%), International (23%), Education (12%).
- Who are Shepher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Israeli-American Council ($5.4M), American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($850k), Birthright Israel Foundation ($454k).
- Does Shepher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shepher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shepher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Saidoff Foresight Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Shepher Foundation based?
- Shepher Foundation is based in CA.
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