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Shepherd University Foundation Inc

Provide scholarships and awards for students attending shepherd university, shepherdstown, wv and provide assistance and support for faculty, facilities and programs of the university.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.6MHealth$140kHuman Services$123kYouth Development$88kFood & Nutrition$68kArts & Culture$60kCrime & Legal$41kHousing & Shelter$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $228k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$36,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY$1,071,036
SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY TABLER FARM$36,250
CAMP FRAME$36,250
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV$36,250
RUTH SCARBOROUGH LIBRARY$36,250
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$26,750
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$26,750
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER$15,650
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE$14,082
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $30k → 4%BERKELEY SENIOR SERVICES: $11k → 11%BERKELEY SENIOR SERVICES: $11k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV: $36k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA: $30k → 11%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 9 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 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

9
7

Total granted

$4.9M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+29%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CA
    CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue ×18
  • EA
    EASTERN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +52%
  • CO
    CASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC
    2× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +194%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue +29%
  • SC
    SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue ×5,581
  • SL
    SEMPER LIBERI INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $31k · revenue +426% · 31% of their budget
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
Shenandoah Valley Medical System I

To promote health and wellness within the community by providing a medical home to reduce barriers to care and ensure access to a full range of coordinated health care and wellness services.

Health
2
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems Inc

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.

Health
3
Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.

Human Services
4
Community Care of West Virginia Inc

The mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…

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5
Good Shepherd Community Clinicinc

The good shepherd community clinic, inc. exists so that the working poor and others who lack healthcare access receive quality care and improved health outcomes.

Health
6
Wayne County Community Services Organization

Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv

Community Improvement
7
Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri

The mission of the community clinic of southwest missouri is to improve the health of people in our community without access to medical, dental, or mental health care.

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8
Southside Community Health Services Inc

Improving the health of our patients and communities by delivering exceptional care, removing barriers, and promoting healthy lifestyles.

Health
9
Communityworks in West Virginia Inc

Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…

Housing & Shelter
10
Compassionate Care of Chesterfield

To provide supportive services for senior adults, terminally ill patients and their familes who reside in chesterfield county.

Human Services
11
Council On Aging for Southeastern Vermont Inc

To promote the well-being and dignity of older adults.

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12
Shepherds Clinic Inc

To provide quality free medical care for the uninsured.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities West Virginia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritan Free Clinic 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

16 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. 16 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY: $4,566,211 · OtherSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY+5 more: $148,332 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $36,250 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $29,835 · Human ServicesA FARM LESS ORDINARY: $29,835 · Human ServicesBERKELEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC: $21,250 · Human ServicesEASTERN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION: $49,725 · HealthSEMPER LIBERI INCORPORATED: $30,750 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC INC: $28,750 · HealthSHEPHERDSTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $62,875 · EducationCONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL: $60,250 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC: $39,563 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY: $11,833 · Youth DevelopmentCASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC: $41,125 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY NETWORKS INC: $37,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,714,543Human Services$117,170Health$109,225Education$62,875Arts & Culture$60,250Youth Development$51,396Crime & Legal$41,125Housing & Shelter$37,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHEPHERDSTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $62,875 over 2y, 22% of budgetCONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL: $60,250 over 4y, 13% of budgetEASTERN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION: $49,725 over 3y, 24% of budgetCASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC: $41,125 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC: $39,563 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY NETWORKS INC: $37,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $36,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $35,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBERKELEY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $31,250 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSEMPER LIBERI INCORPORATED: $30,750 over 1y, 31% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $29,835 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA FARM LESS ORDINARY: $29,835 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBERKELEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC: $21,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY: $11,833 over 1y, 7.9% 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.

Eastern West Virginia…United Way of the Eas…Bowles Rice FoundationThe Greater Cincinnat…Truist West Virginia …Bernard McDonough Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Eastern West Virginia Community FoundationWV36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · United Way of the Eastern Panhandle · Bowles Rice Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 University Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shepherd University Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 19 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 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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