Georgia · Private foundation
Shepherd Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $270k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $48,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Shepherd Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $270k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $308k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $168k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $178k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $186k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $136k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $121k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $128k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shepherd Center Foundation Inc | $265,500 | 9 | 27% |
| Presbyterian Heritage Center | $81,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Georgia Public Policy Foundation Inc | $76,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The University of Georgia Foundation | $56,833 | 6 | 0% |
| Pace Academy Inc | $52,000 | 9 | 0% |
| George West Mental Health Foundation Inc | $49,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Young Harris College | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Atlanta Police Foundation Inc | $33,100 | 9 | 0% |
| International Justice Mission | $29,200 | 9 | 0% |
| The Westminster Schools Inc | $27,275 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 84 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($503k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shepherd Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Shepherd Foundation Inc
- How much does Shepherd Foundation Inc give?
- Shepherd Foundation Inc reported 55 grants totaling $269,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shepherd Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (25%), Religion (21%).
- Who are Shepherd Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shepherd Center Foundation Inc ($266k), Presbyterian Heritage Center ($81k), Georgia Public Policy Foundation Inc ($76k).
- Does Shepherd Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shepherd Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shepherd Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, The Kelin Foundation, The Waterfall Foundation Inc.
- Where is Shepherd Foundation Inc based?
- Shepherd Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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