· Private foundation
Shepherd Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $10,000 |
| UGA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UVA COLLEGE & GRADUATE | $10,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $5,000 |
| MONTREAT PRESBYTERIAN CONFERENCE CENTER DEVELOP | $3,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DUCKS UNLIMITEDone grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
How this is measured
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shepherd Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shepherd Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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