How much did SHEPHERDS - A FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Human Services$1.6MEnvironment$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.2MEducation$685kYouth Development$387kPublic Safety & Disaster$375kEmployment$100kArts & Culture$30kOther$2.9M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

teton raptor

2019

jackson hole

2020

—

2021

pathwaysrescueriverjackson holeteton

2022

rescueriverteton

2023

river

2024

landriverteton

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k7 grants · $124k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants

WONDERFOLK$250,000
SPREAD THE LOVE COMMISSION$205,000
CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER OF JACKSON WY$200,000
TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST$150,000
TETON COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE FOUNDATION$100,000
CARVING THE FUTURE$100,000
BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWER PROJECT$73,333
ASTORIA HOT SPRINGS AND PARK$70,000
SEATAC BMX$60,000
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE$50,000
SNAKE RIVER FUND$50,000
ALAS UTAH$50,000
WELCOME HOME ALLIANCE FOR VETERANS$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC$50,000
REVERT FOUNDATION$40,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $855k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.9M · 24 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.9M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+87%

Still filing today

63%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $381k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

ST
SPREAD THE LOVE COMMISSION
7× · 2018–2024 · $763k · revenue +379% · 56% of their budget
SR
SNAKE RIVER FUND
4× · 2021–2024 · $580k · revenue +705% · 65% of their budget
W
WONDERFOLK
4× · 2018–2024 · $460k · revenue +1176% · 55% of their budget

Funded once

HR
HAMMER RESIDENCESgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue +55%
TL
THE LITERACY CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +87%
SS
SAGEBRUSH STEPPE LAND TRUST
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Land Trust of the Treasure Valley

Land trust of the treasure valley is a non-profit organization that works with private landowners, developers, government agencies, and citizens to creatively protect open spaces - working farms and ranches, wildlife habitat, outdoor…

Environment

Methow Valley Trails Collaborative

Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.

Environment

Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…

Environment

Teton Valley Trails & Pathways

Creation and maintenance of a "connected community" by promoting and facilitating trails & pathways programs.

Environment

Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment

Crested Butte Land Trust

The mission of the crested butte land trust is to forever protect and steward open lands for vistas, recreation, wildlife and ranching, thus contributing to the preservation of gunnison countys unique heritage and quality of life

Environment

Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment

Beaverhead Trails Coalition

Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County

Environment

Teton Freeriders Inc

Maintain, sustain, and promote safety through trail building.

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Feather River Land Trust

(See Schedule O)The Feather River Land Trust has as its mission to conserve the lands and waters of the Feather River region and steward their ecological,cultural and educational values for current and future generations. The Land Trust…

Environment

Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment

Wallowa Land Trust

Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Land Trust Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

472/5,286

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

25/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,019,667Human Services$1,588,000Environment$1,398,000Recreation & Sports$1,175,000Education$685,000Youth Development$387,000Public Safety & Disaster$375,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Cross Charitable Foundation Inc · The McKnight Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Morse Family Foundation · William E Weiss Foundation Inc · Montrose Community Foundation · Fjc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation SHEPHERDS - A FAMILY FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: REVERT FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 475372353 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on REVERT FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Shepherds - a Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shepherds - a Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SHEPHERDS - A FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Shepherds - a Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SHEPHERDS - A FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Shepherds - a Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph