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· Private foundation
SHEPHERD CHARITABLE TRUST
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$243k
Granted FY2024
11
Grants
4
Communities
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of SHEPHERD CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ST SCHOLASTICA MONASTERY$75,000
- WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRY$35,000
- HILLSDALE COLLEGE$30,000
- GOLDWATER INSTITUTE$30,000
- BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY$25,000
- JUDICIAL WATCH$25,000
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$14,000
- LOVE THEM ALL SANCTUARY$5,000
- MNBR$2,000
- HEARTLAND EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH$1,000
- GREATER LAKE SYLVIA ASSOCIATION$1,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
12
Total granted
$1.2M
$88k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+46%
+15%
Still filing today
15%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationCrime & LegalAnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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
- SSST SCHOLASTICA MONASTERY8× · 2017–2024 · $290k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $250k
- BLBENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITY4× · 2021–2024 · $180k
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2021 · $25k
- BHBENEDICTINE HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +15%
- BMBENILDE-ST MARGARET'S SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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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Justices of the Peace & Constables
Provide state of texas flags and certificates of gratitude from the office of the governor of the state of texas to the families of deceased persons who were once texas peace officers.
Human Services
2
Peace Officers Memorial Foundation
To honor and support TX Peace Officers.
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3
The Suffolk County Police Memorial Fund
To provide educational assistance to family of police officers killed in line of duty.
Crime & Legal
4
Chicago Police Memorial Foundation
The foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to honoring the lives of our fallen heroes. the foundation provides support and assistance to the families of chicago police officers who were killed or catastrophically injured in…
Arts & Culture
5
Joseph J Laurencelle Memorial
Education
6
United States Law Enforcement
Since the inception of the paralyzed and disabled police officers fund, the united states law enforcement foundation has provided over 690,000 in financial assistance and 270,000 in gifts to police officers who were disabled in the line of…
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7
Valley Health System
Serving our community by improving health. provision of healthcare and medical services.
Health
8
Elite Detection K9
Save lives and protect our communities through the provision of superior canines and k9 teams
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9
Hospice Care Corporation
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
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10
Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police
Crime & Legal
11
United States Park Police
Human Services
12
Westport Police Association
To promote safety to the westport (ma) community.
Public Safety & Disaster
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Benedictine Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,195,000Education$61,000Public Benefit$25,000Community Improvement$20,000Crime & Legal$10,000Animals$5,000Environment$1,000Human Services$1,000
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation SHEPHERD CHARITABLE TRUST 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CARS AGAINST CRIME.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 862684354 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CARS AGAINST CRIME, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Shepherd Charitable Trust?
Find your warmest path to Shepherd Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines