Arizona · Private foundation
The Sheppard Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $18k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations The Sheppard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $163k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $45k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $89k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $39k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $71k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $52k | 48% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $464k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independent School Inc | $480,657 | 5 | 6% |
| Fundamental Literacy Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc | $52,800 | 5 | 1% |
| Fully Informed Jury Association | $49,000 | 8 | 24% |
| Trust Women Foundation Inc | $35,483 | 6 | 1% |
| Wichita Swim Club | $20,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Principia Corporation | $17,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Kansas Abortion Fund | $17,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Means of Inquiry | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mamafilm Inc | $14,000 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sheppard Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Annie Foundation · Wichita Foundation · Bonavia Family Charitable Trust · Mosby Lincoln Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Ima Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sheppard Foundation
- How much does The Sheppard Foundation give?
- The Sheppard Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $17,710 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sheppard Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (71%), Arts & Culture (8%), Health (8%).
- Who are The Sheppard Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Independent School Inc ($481k), Fundamental Literacy Foundation ($100k), Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc ($53k).
- Does The Sheppard Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sheppard Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sheppard Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie Foundation, Wichita Foundation, Bonavia Family Charitable Trust.
- Where is The Sheppard Foundation based?
- The Sheppard Foundation is based in AZ.
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