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The Shepherd Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$129k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$177kHealth$169kEducation$128kAnimals$87kPhilanthropy$26kCommunity Improvement$19kYouth Development$16kReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$19,500
GRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE$15,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$15,000
DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
IEEE FOUNDATION$15,000
STRAY CAT BLUES$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB READING$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $20k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $15k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $8k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $7k → 6%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY AT TELFORD: $500 → 7%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $4k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $3k → 6%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY AT TELFORD: $250 → 7%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $1k → 6%LORD'S PANTRY OF DOWNINGTOWN: $500 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$570k · 24 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
42

Total granted

$570k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+26%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • IF
    IEEE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +59%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +32%
  • GV
    GRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +539%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • DH
    DOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -1%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +40%
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.

1
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Pocono Health System

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.

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3
Humc Medical Observation Pa

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.

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4
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

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…

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5
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

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.

Health
6
Hackensack Specialty Care Associates Pc

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.

Health
7
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

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.

Health
9
Highlands Hospital

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…

Health
10
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

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…

Health
11
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $73,750 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCGRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $69,500 · OtherGRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INCSANTAS ELVES SLATEBELT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $19,000 · OtherSANTAS ELVES SLATEBELT CHAMBER OF COMME…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+35 more: $49,550 · Other+35 moreIEEE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · EducationIEEE FOUNDATION INCSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $48,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL …+1 more: $2,000 · EducationSTRAY CAT BLUES INC: $69,250 · AnimalsSTRAY CAT BLUE…Montgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,750 · AnimalsMontgomery Cou…+5 more: $5,750 · Animals+5 moreCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $67,750 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTNE…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRI…+2 more: $1,250 · Human ServicesDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthDOYLESTOWN …DOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthDOYLESTOWN …ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,500 · HealthAMERICAN CA…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 · HealthTHE CHILDRE…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 · Health+8 more: $6,500 · Health+8 moreHILTON HEAD HEROES INC: $25,750 · PhilanthropyHILTON HE…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $19,500 · PhilanthropyGARY SINI…Chapters Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyChapters …+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC: $11,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $250 · Youth Development
Other$221,800Education$130,000Animals$80,750Human Services$75,000Health$67,500Philanthropy$55,750Youth Development$11,250

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIEEE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $73,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND VIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $69,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSTRAY CAT BLUES INC: $69,250 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $67,750 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHILTON HEAD HEROES INC: $25,750 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $19,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChapters Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOGAN'S HEROES ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES ON HORSEBACK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPITT HOPKINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWISH UPON A HORSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLUTHERAN COMMUNITY AT TELFORD INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOGAN'S HEROES: $500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAST CHANCE RANCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight Philadelphia Corporation: $500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLONGWOOD GARDENS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLORD'S PANTRY OF DOWNINGTOWN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSPLANT HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT MEOW: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIX OAKS CEMETERY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Chubb Charitable Foun…The Cigna Group Found…Aetna Foundation IncLincoln Financial Fou…United Way of the Gre…Ppl FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Philadelphia Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…
Chubb Charitable FoundationPA19.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Shepherd Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shepherd Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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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How do I get to The Shepherd Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Shepherd Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 73 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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