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GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES

GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,639,617 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($4,318,531). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$9.5M
Revenue FY2025
49
Funders on record
$11M
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
33/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.8M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($9.8M)2018 Revenue 74 ($4.3M) Expenses 108 ($4.3M) Net assets 100 ($9.8M)2019 Revenue 79 ($4.6M) Expenses 108 ($4.3M) Net assets 103 ($10M)2020 Revenue 82 ($4.8M) Expenses 112 ($4.5M) Net assets 106 ($10M)2021 Revenue 96 ($5.6M) Expenses 119 ($4.8M) Net assets 124 ($12M)2022 Revenue 101 ($5.9M) Expenses 139 ($5.5M) Net assets 119 ($12M)2023 Revenue 127 ($7.4M) Expenses 172 ($6.8M) Net assets 130 ($13M)2024 Revenue 147 ($8.5M) Expenses 215 ($8.6M) Net assets 135 ($13M)2025 Revenue 163 ($9.5M) Expenses 238 ($9.5M) Net assets 136 ($13M)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (238)Net assets (136)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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.

$1.8M
17
$8k
18
$292k
19
$330k
20
$837k
21
$357k
22
$600k
23
$16k
24
$4k
25
8.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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 49 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 49 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 41% 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.

41%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

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

75% of GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

ME
MN
IL
WI
OH
MO
MD
DE
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $549k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 49 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Missouri

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 12%Fundraising 5%

Governance

19
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES?
GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,639,617 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($4,318,531). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $10,639,617 in grants to GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES, 33 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.

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 49funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing