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The Shepherd Foundation Ltd

Tuition assistance for catholic high school and grade school students who require financial aid.

$652k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$1.1MReligion$42k
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $404,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $652,430 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $247,930 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $342k
$11,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $23k → 14%OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL: $15k → 6%GEORGETOWN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $15k → 8%SAINT MARY'S RYKEN HIGH SCHOOL: $14k → 8%ARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $23k → 14%GEORGETOWN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $15k → 8%SAINT MARY'S RYKEN HIGH SCHOOL: $14k → 8%SAINT VINCENT PALLOTTI HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 11%ARCHBISHOP CARROL HS: $20k → 14%ST MARY'S RYKEN: $12k → 8%SAINT VINCENT PALLOTTI HIGH SCHOOL: $11k → 11%GONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 14%GEORGETOWN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $14k → 8%GONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 14%SAINT JOHN'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $42k → 14%SAINT ELIZABETH SCHOOL: $11k → 8%SAINT JOHN'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $42k → 14%ST JOHN'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $32k → 14%GONZAGA HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 14%ELIZABETH SETON: $15k → 11%GEORGETOWN VISITATION PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $17k → 14%CONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD: $15k → 8%BISHOP MCNAMARA HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 11%GEORGETOWN VISITATION PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $17k → 14%CONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD: $15k → 8%ELIZABETH SETON HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 11%GEORGETOWN VISITATION: $14k → 14%CONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD: $14k → 8%BISHOP MCNAMARA HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 11%SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL: $14k → 14%OUR LADY OF MERCY: $12k → 8%ELIZABETH SETON HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 11%SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL: $14k → 14%OUR LADY OF MERCY SCHOOL: $12k → 8%BISHOP MCNAMARA: $14k → 11%SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL: $13k → 14%OUR LADY OF MERCY SCHOOL: $12k → 8%OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 8%OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 8%OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $16k → 8%OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $16k → 8%OUR LADY OF LOURDES: $15k → 8%THE ACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS: $23k → 8%THE ACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS: $23k → 8%ACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS: $22k → 8%HOLY REDEEMER SCHOOL (KENSINGTON): $11k → 8%HOLY REDEEMER SCHOOL (KENSINGTON): $11k → 8%ST BARTHOLOMEW: $20k → 8%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$859k · 29 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
20

Total granted

$859k
$259k

Still filing today

3%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $84k
  • AO
    ACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $68k
  • GC
    GONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $32k
  • GH
    GONZAGA HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SB
    ST BARTHOLOMEW
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
04the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHN'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $84,000 · OtherST JOHN'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS INC: $68,000 · OtherACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS INCGONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL: $46,000 · OtherCONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD: $44,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $43,000 · OtherSAN MIGUEL SCHOOL INC: $41,000 · OtherST MARYS RYKEN INC: $40,000 · Other+42 more: $708,750 · Other+42 more
Other$1,124,750

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HEIGHTS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds THE HEIGHTS INC ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…The US Charitable Gif…Redskin Foundation In…The James M Johnston …Crimsonbridge Foundat…Clark Charitable Foun…Folds of Honor Founda…Catholic Business Net…Catholic Coalition fo…Andreas Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC38.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 50 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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