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The Good Shepherd Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH HIGHLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $24,232 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $24,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| GOD'S WORD FOR WARRIORS - CO DR TOM SEALES | $7,500 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $5,031 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE FOUNDRY | $2,500 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| CHIMALA MISSION & HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
37 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $86k · revenue +30%
Samford University4× · 2022–2025 · $34k · revenue +1%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- NSNAVY SEAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +78%- SFSEMPER FIone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Hjf partners to advance military medicine for our nations warfighters. as a global nonprofit organization authorized by congress, hjf provides scientific, administrative and program management services to researchers and clinicians. hjf…
Cj3 foundation provides services, support, and advocacy to united states military service members, veterans/disabled veterans, law enforcement, and emergency responders who need/require assistance, and then connecting them with resources…
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is All Secure Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 55 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BRYAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
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: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Community Food Bank of Central Alabama · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Horne Family Charitable Foundation · Holle Family Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Altecstyslinger 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 The Good Shepherd 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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