· Private foundation
The Shepherds Hand Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k80 grants · $335k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $274k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLAGE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| QPLACE | $20,000 |
| HURON FORREST CAMP CEDAR RIDGE | $15,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN RANCHES | $15,000 |
| DARE 2 SHARE | $15,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $15,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| ANSWERS IN GENESIS | $12,000 |
| FOR THE CHILDREN | $12,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| HIS HOUSE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| SLAVIC GOSPEL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $10,000 |
| STRAIGHT AHEAD MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| TEACH EVERY NATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of The Shepherds Hand Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
144 repeat relationships: 91 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 11 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BLBAIR LAKE BIBLE CAMP9× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +42%
- FTFOR THE CHILDREN9× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +68%
- SNSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- VCVICTORY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +14%
- HIHEIFER INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CHCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +120%
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.
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
How this is measured
104 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. 104 of the 196 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Q PLACE ↗
- Who funds BAIR LAKE BIBLE CAMP ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Keys for Kids Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HURON FOREST CAMP CEDARRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Dare 2 Share Ministries ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HEMLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEACH EVERY NATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIANS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Youth for Christ of Detroit ↗
- Who funds Idols Aside Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GROWTHTRAC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds FULFILLING ENDEAVORS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S CHOICE 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.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Usher Family Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Givewell Community Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Fwg Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gordon Christian Trust · Bradley Impact Fund Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shepherds Hand Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shepherds Hand Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc: 27% of income from government
How this is measured
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