· Private foundation
The Shepherd Family Charitable 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $19,500 |
| CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE | $15,000 |
| IEEE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| STRAY CAT BLUES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB READING | $5,000 |
| LOGAN'S HEROES ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $2,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA | $2,000 |
| CHRIST UMC | $1,000 |
| PITT HOPKINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY17–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- IFIEEE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +59%
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +32%
- GVGRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +539%
Funded once
- DHDOYLESTOWN HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -1%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +40%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Logan's Heroes. 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 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 73 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 IEEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT BLUES INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Chapters Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds LOGAN'S HEROES ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HEROES ON HORSEBACK ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISH UPON A HORSE INC ↗
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: Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment 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 Shepherd Family Charitable 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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