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ROBERT E SHEPHERD FOUNDATION

ROBERT E SHEPHERD FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being INT'L UNION OF BRICKLAYERS & ALLIED CRAFTSMEN ADMIN DISTRICT COUNCIL ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$83k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$0
Grants received
$78k
Net assets
0/1 repeat funders

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 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($28k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2021 Revenue 91 ($26k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets 59 ($2k)2022 Revenue 301 ($86k) Expenses 239 ($65k) Net assets 832 ($23k)2023 Revenue 306 ($87k) Expenses 231 ($62k) Net assets 1741 ($47k)2024 Revenue 329 ($93k) Expenses 258 ($70k) Net assets 2613 ($71k)2025 Revenue 293 ($83k) Expenses 279 ($75k) Net assets 2898 ($78k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (293)Expenses (279)Net assets (2898)
02Who funds it
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.

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 ROBERT E SHEPHERD FOUNDATION

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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROBERT E SHEPHERD FOUNDATION: 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 ROBERT E SHEPHERD FOUNDATION?
ROBERT E SHEPHERD FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being INT'L UNION OF BRICKLAYERS & ALLIED CRAFTSMEN ADMIN DISTRICT COUNCIL ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROBERT E SHEPHERD FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to ROBERT E SHEPHERD FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of ROBERT E SHEPHERD FOUNDATION?
INT'L UNION OF BRICKLAYERS & ALLIED CRAFTSMEN ADMIN DISTRICT COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROBERT E SHEPHERD FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing