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Shepherd 5 Points Family 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $202k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $679k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $1,050,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS | $993,393 |
| FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES | $333,334 |
| UATX | $240,000 |
| INTEGRAL CARE | $168,750 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS | $70,000 |
| AUSTIN ANGELS | $50,000 |
| PRESERVATION AUSTIN | $50,000 |
| OTHER ONES FOUNDATION INC | $47,500 |
| HUNTRY HILL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MISSION ACCOMPLISHED | $25,000 |
| I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE | $25,000 |
| TRINITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $17,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 25% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 12 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $609k 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
- BBREAKTHROUGH5× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +137%
- FCFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC4× · 2017–2025 · $443k · revenue +99%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D5× · 2019–2023 · $129k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TOTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -94%
- KKIPPone grant, 2018 · $14k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXASone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
The texas academy of family physicians is dedicated to the promotion of a health care environment that values the vital role of family physicians in providing quality, comprehensive care to all texans.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 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. 56 of the 105 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 BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UATX ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN TRAVIS COUNTY MHMR CENTER DBA INTEGRAL CARE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds LSU IN SHREVEPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE ↗
- Who funds MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ↗
- Who funds THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hungry Hill Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVID PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · St David's Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Rwh Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Shepherd 5 Points 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.
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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