· Public charity
The Shepherd Foundation Ltd
Tuition assistance for catholic high school and grade school students who require financial aid.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $404,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $652,430 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $247,930 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $342k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT JOHN'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $42,000 |
| GONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| THE ACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS | $23,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL | $23,000 |
| SAINT VINCENT PALLOTTI HIGH SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| GEORGETOWN VISITATION PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| BISHOP MCNAMARA HIGH SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL HIGH SCHOOL | $15,500 |
| CONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD | $15,000 |
| ELIZABETH SETON HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| GEORGETOWN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $14,500 |
| SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S RYKEN HIGH SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| OUR LADY OF MERCY SCHOOL | $11,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of your 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
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
- SJST JOHN'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $84k
- AOACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $68k
- GCGONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $50k
Funded once
- SJST JOHN'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $32k
- GHGONZAGA HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 14. 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 15% 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.
1 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. 1 of the 50 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.
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation · The James M Johnston Trust for Char & Educ Purposes · Crimsonbridge Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Catholic Business Network of Montgomery County Scholarship & Grant Foundation · Catholic Coalition for Special Education Inc · Andreas 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 Foundation Ltd 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.