Minnesota · Private foundation
Shepherds - a Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $32M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Shepherds - a Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $1.6M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $966k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.2M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $3.0M | 74% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $802k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $590k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $433k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spread the Love Commission | $763,000 | 7 | 56% |
| Snake River Fund | $580,000 | 4 | 65% |
| Wonderfolk | $460,000 | 4 | 55% |
| The Children's Learning Center Inc | $425,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation | $375,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Friends of the Teton River Inc | $375,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Revert Foundation Inc | $360,000 | 7 | 100% |
| Hammer Residences Inc | $350,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Carving the Future | $350,000 | 6 | 72% |
| Haven House of Montrose Inc | $300,000 | 5 | 12% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shepherds - a Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 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: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Hughes Charitable Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Morse Family Foundation · Montrose Community Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Community Foundation · Donald and Jenny Horn Foundation · Guerrero Family Foundation · Karl M Johnson Foundation
How this is measured
About Shepherds - a Family Foundation
- How much does Shepherds - a Family Foundation give?
- Shepherds - a Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,603,333 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Shepherds - a Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Environment (16%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
- Who are Shepherds - a Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Spread the Love Commission ($763k), Snake River Fund ($580k), Wonderfolk ($460k).
- Does Shepherds - a Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shepherds - a Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shepherds - a Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Hughes Charitable Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.
- Where is Shepherds - a Family Foundation based?
- Shepherds - a Family Foundation is based in MN.
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