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Shepherd's Walk Foundation Inc at a glance

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Shepherd's Walk Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$150kHealth$82kCivil Rights$25kReligion$25kPublic Benefit$21kEducation$15kRecreation & Sports$15kInternational$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$9,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$579k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER$10,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS$9,000
SAMARITAN PURSE$5,000
PITCH IN BASEBALL & SOFTBALL$5,000
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN PRISON MINISTRY$5,000
ATLANTA JUNIOR BRIDGE$1,000
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Village 2 Village Project: $3k → 5%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

IL
NY
IA
IN
PA
CA
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$173k · 10 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$173k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+53%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’24’25
HealthEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +13%
  • Cure Childhood Cancer Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • CS
    CHRIST SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • PL
    PEARSON LAKES ART CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +93%
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -59%
  • VP
    VILLAGE2VILLAGE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +53%
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.

04Its 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
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

The parker institute for cancer immunotherapy's (pici) mission is to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases.

Health
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

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
3
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
4
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
5
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
6
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
8
Council of Institutional Investors

Educate/advocate for effective corporate governance and public company disclosure, strong shareholder rights and fair capital markets.

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9
Augusta University Research Institute Inc

Augusta university research institute, inc. (the "institute") was incorporated under the laws of the state of georgia as a nonprofit corporation on july 31, 1980. the institute qualified as a tax-exempt corporation under section 501(c)(3)…

Education
10
Pact Institute

Pact institute works to achieve strategic objectives that improve the lives of people around the world who are poor and marginalized through innovation, the exploration of new approaches and partnerships, and funding diversification. it is…

—
11
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Research Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is VILLAGE2VILLAGE Project Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER: $150,000 · Arts & CulturePEARSON LAKES ART CENTERALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $37,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELA…CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE …Cure Childhood Cancer Inc: $15,000 · HealthCure Childhood Cancer IncPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL: $15,000 · OtherPITCH IN FOR BA…Orthodox Children's Prison Ministry: $10,500 · OtherOrthodox Childr…ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN PRISON MINISTRY: $10,000 · OtherORTHODOX CHRIST…JACOBS LADDER PRESCHOOL: $3,000 · OtherJACOBS LADDER P…United States Association for UNHCR: $4,000 · OtherUnited States A…VILLAGE2VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $3,300 · OtherVILLAGE2VILLAGE…+2 more: $2,000 · OtherCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $21,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $4,500 · Civil RightsPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$150,000Health$82,000Other$47,800Civil Rights$25,500Community Improvement$25,000Education$15,000Religion$5,000

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 budgetPEARSON LAKES ART CENTER: $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE2VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $3,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetONE HUNDRED SHARES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAtlanta Junior Bridge Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Shepherd's Walk Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Shepherd's Walk Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 18 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-PF 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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