Missouri · Nonprofit
GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES
GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,721,722 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($4,318,531). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Good Shepherd Children & Family Services does
Mission
Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care case management:meets the needs of children and youth in foster care through the development and retention of foster homes and placement, supervision, and case management services to children placed in foster care. Our goal is to address the individual needs of each child while working towards permanency, I.e. Reunification with the family, adoption, or guardianship. During the most recent contract year, 245 youth were served and 26.12% reached permanency.
$2,739,550 spentof which $358,036 as grants$2,724,279 earned by the program35% of program spendingMaternity residential:shelter/residential care services for pregnant and parenting girls between the ages of 12 and 21 who are foster youth, homeless, or at risk of homelessness. In the most recent fiscal year, services were provided to 49 pregnant/parenting teens and 36 babies. In calendar year 2024, 70% of clients demonstrated improved parenting skills, 91% transitioned to a planned living environment and 70% obtained/maintained employment and/or enrolled in school or vocational training.
$1,652,404 spentof which $36,727 as grants$504,896 earned by the program21% of program spendingPregnancy & parenting support:provides counseling and case management services to expectant parents of any age and family members experiencing a stressful pregnancy. The goals of this program are to assure healthy delivery of the child and stabilize the home environment such that the child will not be at risk of abuse or neglect. Services include direct financial support, referrals for appropriate medical care and housing, and adoption planning (as needed). Counseling addresses decision making, parenting skills, stabilizing living situations, communication skills within the family, relationships, problem solving skills, planning and the legal rights and responsibilities of both parents. In the most recent fiscal year, 309 clients were served, and 90% of babies born to our pps clients in 2024 were of a healthy birth weight.
$1,213,554 spentof which $26,604 as grants$956,868 earned by the program15% of program spendingAdoption:recruits, trains and counsels applicants interested in adoption. Possibilities include: non-special needs infants, special needs infants, infants available through independent adoption, children available for adoption by a relative or step-parent, infants and children available through international adoption, and older children available for adoption. In fiscal year 24, 177 individuals received services (home study, post-adoptive services, information regarding past adoptions, etc.). In calendar year 24, 94% of placements remained stable and 100% of children in adoptive placement received routine medical care according to the department of health standards.
$285,565 spentof which $2,936 as grants$282,748 earned by the program4% of program spendingTreatment foster care:tfc provides intensive, family-based care for deeply troubled youth as an alternative to institutional care. The program served 46 youth in fy25. In calendar year 2024, 100% of youth served were free from substantiated incidents of abuse or neglect and 67% had improved overall functioning as measured by the cspi.
$1,142,671 spentof which $549,731 as grants$1,254,556 earned by the program15% of program spendingPartners: in fy24, good shepherd became the contract holder for the foster care case management contract operated under the name of st. Louis partners. Partners provider agencies are good shepherd, bringing families together and lutheran family and children services. Together they serve 495 children and youth who are in the care and custody of the state of missouri. Good shepherd provides management staff to oversee the contract and employs 5.5 fte in those roles: director, medical case manager, 2 placement specialists, a quality assurance manager and a half time compliance manager.
$813,980 spentof which $66,017 as grants$802,761 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,847,724.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $17M (+29%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kathy Fowler
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $693k → $1.9M.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 84% · 2019 75% · 2020 38% · 2021 40% · 2022 31% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
76% of GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $569k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Good Shepherd Service Agency LLC · disregarded
- Archdiocese of St Louis · exempt
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis · exempt
- Saint Louis Counseling · exempt
- Child Center-Marygrove Dba Marygrove · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES?
- GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,721,722 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($4,318,531). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $10,721,722 in grants to GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,318,531 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing