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.

Shepherds - a Family Foundation

Shepherds - a Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.9MEnvironment$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.1MYouth Development$629kHuman Services$585kHealth$402kPublic Safety & Disaster$375kOther$0

02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
CARVING THE FUTURE	$100,000
TETON COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE FOUNDATION	$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
Individual grant recipient	$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC	$50,000
WELCOME HOME ALLIANCE FOR VETERANS	$50,000
SNAKE RIVER FUND	$50,000
REVERT FOUNDATION	$40,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

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

+51%

+48%

Still filing today

71%

65%

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

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

ST
Spread the Love Commission
7× · 2018–2024 · $763k · revenue +838% · 56% of their budget
SR
SNAKE RIVER FUND
4× · 2021–2024 · $580k · revenue +53% · 65% of their budget
W
WONDERFOLK
4× · 2018–2024 · $460k · revenue ×13 · 55% of their budget

Funded once

HR
Hammer Residences Incgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue +48%
SS
Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -4%
TL
The Literacy Center Inc
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +13%

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.

Land Trust of the Treasure Valley

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…

Environment

Scenic Montana Trails

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Grand Teton National Park Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy

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 Incorporated

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

Rendezvous Lands Conservancy

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.

Environment

Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

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.

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The Teton Springs Foundation Inc 01

Philanthropy

Teton Regional Economic Coalition Inc

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.

Community Improvement

Mountain Bike the Tetons Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Pathways; 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.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/35

Grantees still filing

24/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,949,667Human Services$1,638,000Environment$1,398,000Recreation & Sports$1,175,000Education$705,000Youth Development$387,000Public Safety & Disaster$375,000

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

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.

Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY35.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shepherds - a Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shepherds - a Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home