· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC | $50,000 |
| WELCOME HOME ALLIANCE FOR VETERANS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SNAKE RIVER FUND | $50,000 |
| REVERT FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $905k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $381k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- STSpread the Love Commission7× · 2018–2024 · $763k · revenue +838% · 56% of their budget
- SRSNAKE RIVER FUND4× · 2021–2024 · $580k · revenue +241% · 65% of their budget
- WWONDERFOLK4× · 2018–2024 · $460k · revenue ×13 · 55% of their budget
Funded once
- HRHammer Residences Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue +41%
- SSSagebrush Steppe Land Trust Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +132%
- TLThe Literacy Center Incone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To create oppurtunites for conservation of natural, scenic, historic, recreational and agricultural values of southwestern idaho's open spaces through collabarative efforts for current and future generations. the land trust indentifies…
Grand Teton National Park Foundation (the Foundation) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with Grand Teton National Park to steward, protect, and enhance all that is special in the park. Budget limitations,…
Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.
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,…
Creation and maintenance of a "connected community" by promoting and facilitating trails & pathways programs.
Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.
To improve the quality of life in rural intermountain west communities by protecting, owning, and creating locally significant keystone conservation properties as public access parks.
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
Our mission is to encourage high-value, low-impact job creation; provide value and service to the business community and enhance the overall prosperity of teton valley.
To build a vibrant, healthy community by enhancing our recreational and economic opportunities in the Teton region through development of our outstanding mountain bike resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Pathways and the most unlike its peers is Libraries of Montrose County Foundation. 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.
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 26 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Spread the Love Commission ↗
- Who funds SNAKE RIVER FUND ↗
- Who funds WONDERFOLK ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds REVERT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hammer Residences Inc ↗
- Who funds CARVING THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Haven House of Montrose Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB ↗
- Who funds Welcome Home Montrose Inc ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area ↗
- Who funds Seatac BMX ↗
- Who funds Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds The Literacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Peer Kindness Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PATHWAYS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALPINE TRAILS AND PATHWAYS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ROCK PHILLY ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S HAND ↗
- Who funds Sharing Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Astoria Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Libraries of Montrose County Foundation ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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.
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 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.