· Private foundation
Shepherd Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k45 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $222k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $48,000 |
| ATLANTA CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $43,000 |
| YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| GA PUBLIC POLICY FDN | $22,500 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER | $20,000 |
| PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $13,000 |
| UGA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $10,000 |
| UVA COLLEGE & GRADUATE | $10,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST | $5,000 |
| MONTREAT PRESBYTERIAN CONFERENCE CENTER DEVELOP | $3,000 |
| BACK THE BLUE BUCKHEAD | $2,500 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- PHPRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +51%
- GPGEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $76k · revenue +68%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- HOHistoric Oakland Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +3%
- RJRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -4%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
See Disclosure Above.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 36 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 142 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 SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDSPRING INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds CHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Kelin Foundation · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Seda Vale Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc
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 Foundation 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 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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