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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $1,605,497, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,695,467 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $89,970 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
THE SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL CORPORATION$40,000
SIDE BY SIDE BRAIN INJURY CLUBHOUSE$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DE
NC
SC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
American Academy of Neurology

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

Community Improvement
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
6
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
7
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
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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12
National Council of University Research Administrators

To serve all members by advancing expertise in the profession of research administration.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwestern University; 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shepherd Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shepherd Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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