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.

The Sheppard Foundation

The Sheppard Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$668kArts & Culture$78kHealth$75kCrime & Legal$49kRecreation & Sports$30kReligion$12kHuman Services$9kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0

02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $8k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FULLY INFORMED JURY ASSOCIATION	$10,000
FRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR	$1,000
THE PRINCIPIA	$1,000
WICHITA SWIM CLUB	$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FDN	$1,000
THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTI	$1,000
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVLOUTIO	$1,000
TALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATION	$500
WICHITA CHILDREN'S THEATRE & DANCE	$500
MAMAFILMCOM	$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREAT PLAINS	$210

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$812k · 32 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$812k

$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+22%

Still filing today

59%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalEducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

IS
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC
5× · 2017–2021 · $481k · revenue +31%
PF
PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC
5× · 2017–2021 · $53k · revenue +179%
TW
Trust Women Foundation Inc
6× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +43%

Funded once

FL
FUNDAMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -87%
MO
MEANS OF INQUIRY
one grant, 2023 · $15k
TR
THE RANDOLPH LOVING CHAPTER
one grant, 2019 · $2k

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.

The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc

The center for reproductive rights ("the center") is an international non-governmental organization that uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world.

Civil Rights

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Great Plains; the most unlike its peers is Mamafilm Inc. 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

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 78 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/49

Grantees still filing

34/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$672,274Education$171,800Health$56,761Recreation & Sports$20,000Arts & Culture$15,123Philanthropy$6,150Human Services$3,100

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.

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.

Annie FoundationKS30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home