California · Nonprofit
SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER
SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,279 to it, the largest being THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION ($42,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $-8348
What Shep-Ty Embrace Game Changer does
Mission
Embrace utilizes community service to create environments that allow people from all walks of life to spend quality time together working toward a common cause. The organization is built on the philosophy that serving communities in need brings people together
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Game changer program is an experiemtial learning module rooted in behavioral psychology that utilizes sporting events to create a safe place for moderated communication between law enforcement and civilian members of the community. The ultimate goals for game changer is for participants to become better educated about one another, leading to changes in perception and behavior. Leading to a change in outcomes.
Moderation services program involves discussions with coporate employees about the criminal justice system and social justice issue in america
Cops and convicts program is a podcast that features in-depth interviews with convicted felons and former police officers.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 2018 to 2019, from $111k to $266k (+140%).
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: 2017 39% · 2018 52% · 2019 52% · 2020 50% · 2021 74% · 2022 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Dr Aaron Bruce
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $20k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 7 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
SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
55% of SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $110k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $74k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$74k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER: 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 SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER?
- SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,279 to it, the largest being THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION ($42,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $110,279 in grants to SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER?
- THE MORRISON & FOERSTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 7 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