Florida · Nonprofit
MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC
MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being RAY & KAY ECKSTEIN CHARITABLE TRUST ($245,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $500k
- Net assets
- $193k
What Ministry of the Good Shepherd Inc does
Mission
The Ministry of the Good Shepherd Inc. is organized to provide financial support for the numerous charitable projects that the Sisters of Mercy, a Catholic Congregation,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Year-Round support for Day-Care Centers supervising and providing lunch to children. The Grants include salaries for the Day-Care supervisors and cooks.
$60,118 spentof which $70,841 as grantsSchool transportation for handicapped children
$9,240 spentof which $9,586 as grantsOther Programs and Services
$29,166 spentof which $36,517 as grantsScholarships for young adults including school uniforms, shoes and school supplies.
$7,087 spentof which $8,056 as grants
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $245k to $207k (−16%).
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.
100% of MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $73k → $37k.
From the IRS filings of MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC’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
MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 49% · 2019 36% · 2020 58% · 2021 68% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC's revenue grew 27% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC?
- MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being RAY & KAY ECKSTEIN CHARITABLE TRUST ($245,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $500,000 in grants to MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC?
- RAY & KAY ECKSTEIN CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $245,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINISTRY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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