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Sheppard 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.

$12k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$267k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Sheppard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$12k0%
FY202310$10k0%
FY202213$19k15%
FY202125$19k28%
FY202020$13k30%
FY201923$16k13%
FY201827$15k15%
FY201724$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$32kHealth$27kRecreation & Sports$24kReligion$10kPublic Benefit$9kCommunity Improvement$6kHuman Services$6kAnimals$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sheppard Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAuburn University Foundation: $11,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation Inc: $8,600 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetThe James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTallahassee Quarterback Club: $6,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $5,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPi Kappa Alpha Foundation: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTallahassee Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc: $4,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLeon County Humane Society: $2,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBig Bend Hospice Foundation Inc: $2,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAuburn Alumni Association: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGoodwood Museum and Gardens Inc: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRefuge House Inc: $300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Medical Society Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLee's Place: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDisabled Veterans National Foundation: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Federation of the Blind: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedia Research Center: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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 North Florida IncFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Florida Inc · The Beatitude Foundation Inc · Capital City Bank Group Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Sheppard Foundation

How much does Sheppard Foundation give?
Sheppard Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $11,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sheppard Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (23%), Recreation & Sports (21%).
Who are Sheppard Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Auburn University Foundation ($12k), Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation Inc ($9k), The James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies Inc ($8k).
Does Sheppard Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sheppard 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 Sheppard Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Florida Inc, The Beatitude Foundation Inc, Capital City Bank Group Foundation Inc.
Where is Sheppard Foundation based?
Sheppard Foundation is based in TX.

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 46 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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