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Shepherd Center Inc

Shepherd center's primary purpose is to provide acute and rehabilitative hospital care to patients with spinal cord injuries, acquired brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, and other neuromuscular and neurological conditions.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 19 grants below total $1,605,497 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,695,467 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $89,970 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $328k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $241k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$37,066
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCI VENTURES LLC$1,000,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$123,523
ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK$60,000
HEALTH TECH PAL CORP$57,940
SENSORIA HEALTH INC$47,416
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$40,806
SIDE BY SIDE BRAIN INJURY CLUBHOUSE$40,000
THE SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL CORPORATION$40,000
FLINT REHABILITATION DEVICES$38,100
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION$37,066
VORTANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC$35,679
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER$21,920
COUNCIL OF STATE ADMINISTRATORS OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION$16,748
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$10,386
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$8,980
02The need
02

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $9k → 10%THE SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $40k → 16%ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK: $60k → 22%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $124k → 10%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $8k → 17%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $41k → 12%VORTANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC: $36k → 12%BLAZESPORTS AMERICA INC: $5k → 9%GEORGIA RSVP INC: $5k → 13%SIDE BY SIDE BRAIN INJURY CLUBHOUSE: $40k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $22k → 12%SENSORIA HEALTH INC: $47k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%HEALTH TECH PAL CORP: $58k → 12%SCI VENTURES LLC: $1.0M → 16%COUNCIL OF STATE ADMINISTRATORS OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION: $17k → 8%FLINT REHABILITATION DEVICES: $38k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

03Your 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.

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Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health
2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
5
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
6
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
7
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
8
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
The Radiosurgery Society

The Radiosurgery Society is a multi-disciplinary non-profit organization, consisting of surgeons, radiation oncologists, physicists, and allied health professionals, who are dedicated to advancing the science and clinical practice of SRS,…

Community Improvement
11
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwestern University and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCI VENTURES LLC — $1,000,000 · OtherSCI VENTURES LLCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $123,523 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINEHEALTH TECH PAL CORP — $57,940 · Other+8 more — $241,834 · Other+8 moreJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK — $60,000 · HealthJEFFERSON …Side by Side Brain Injury Clubhouse — $40,000 · HealthSide by Si…GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $37,066 · HealthGEORGIA TE…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $8,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthCOUNCIL OF STATE ADMINISTRATORS OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION — $16,748 · EmploymentNorthwestern University — $10,386 · Recreation & SportsBlazeSports America Inc — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,423,297Health$150,066Employment$16,748Recreation & Sports$15,386

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSide by Side Brain Injury Clubhouse — $40,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $37,066 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE ADMINISTRATORS OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION — $16,748 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $8,933 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia RSVP Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Shepherd Center 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.

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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • University of Delaware30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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