Missouri · Nonprofit
Good Shepherd School for Children
Good Shepherd School for Children (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,328 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($124,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Good Shepherd School for Children does
Mission
Helping children of all abilities reach their potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early Childhood Education: Good Shepherd's Early Childhood Education program is based on creative curriculum. Creative curriculum also works in collaboration with developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs: As published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children NAEYC. We believe children learn from everyone around them and they grow and learn differently. Children construct their own knowledge as a result of their interaction with their world. We provide opportunities for them to explore and grow. The classroom environment enables children to be engaged in positive interactions with their peers and teachers. The environment typically includes the following learning centers, as space and interest of the children allows: block, house corner, table toys, art, sand and water, library, music and movement, and outdoors. With the environment in place, the teacher will See Part III, Ln 4a statement
$1,168,076 spent$1,132,397 earned by the program99% of program spendingPediatric therapy services: Our Pediatric Therapy services provide year-round physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and developmental therapy. The services are provided for children who have special needs or delays, ages six weeks to eighteen years, who are students in our early childhood classrooms, are outpatients, and/or are home visit clients. Students served have a variety of special needs including autism, down syndrome, spina bifida, learning disabilities, speech/language disorders and various development delays. Most of the children have multiple special needs. Our pediatric therapy program expands into the community to focus on family support and early childhood intervention and to serve additional children. While our facility is located in west St. Louis county, our pediatric therapy program has touched lives throughout the metropolitan area including families who live in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County. Children who receive service through our pediatric therapy program receive therapy one to five times See Part III, Ln 4b statement
$10,874 spent$16,043 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,178,950.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $1.7M (−12%).
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 15% · 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of Good Shepherd School for Children’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Staci Kopp
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $40k → $16k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 School for Children’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 School for Children leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 School for Children.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 96% · 2019 91% · 2020 49% · 2021 62% · 2022 56% · 2023 46% — 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
71% of Good Shepherd School for Children's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
67% of Good Shepherd School for Children's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $66k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Good Shepherd School for Children's revenue grew 18% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Good Shepherd School for Children
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Good Shepherd School for Children: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Good Shepherd School for Children?
- Good Shepherd School for Children (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,328 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($124,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Good Shepherd School for Children have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $197,328 in grants to Good Shepherd School for Children, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Good Shepherd School for Children?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $124,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Good Shepherd School for Children 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 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing