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SHEPHERD CENTER INC

SHEPHERD CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 184 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,169,893 to it, the largest being THE O WAYNE ROLLINS FOUNDATION ($5,492,600). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$366M
Revenue FY2025
184
Funders on record
$20M
Grants received
$847M
Net assets
93/184 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

SHEPHERD CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 877 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 877 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($231M) Expenses 100 ($195M) Net assets 100 ($365M)2018 Revenue 108 ($248M) Expenses 110 ($216M) Net assets 115 ($421M)2019 Revenue 114 ($263M) Expenses 122 ($238M) Net assets 126 ($458M)2020 Revenue 130 ($300M) Expenses 135 ($264M) Net assets 129 ($470M)2021 Revenue 127 ($294M) Expenses 139 ($272M) Net assets 164 ($597M)2022 Revenue 134 ($310M) Expenses 147 ($287M) Net assets 177 ($644M)2023 Revenue 139 ($320M) Expenses 148 ($290M) Net assets 184 ($672M)2024 Revenue 181 ($418M) Expenses 153 ($299M) Net assets 216 ($788M)2025 Revenue 159 ($366M) Expenses 165 ($323M) Net assets 232 ($847M)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (165)Net assets (232)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

19% of SHEPHERD CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$35M
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$33M
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$24M
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$37M
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$22M
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$24M
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$31M
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$119M
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$44M
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6.2
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.7M.

17 of 184 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest The Avalon Network Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SHEPHERD CENTER INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SHEPHERD CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 184 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

SHEPHERD CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

34% 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 SHEPHERD CENTER INC.

27%
largest funder
45%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 16% · 2019 46% · 2020 29% · 2021 72% · 2022 35% · 2023 21%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

34% of SHEPHERD CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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

80% of SHEPHERD CENTER INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

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

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 184 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.

Government funding SHEPHERD CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23.7M on record — $23.7M federal, $14 state.

Federal$23.7M
grants $23.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$20.9M
  • Department of Defense$1.9M
  • Social Security Administration$900k
State$14
Top programs
  • FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $14

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 SHEPHERD CENTER INC

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 Georgia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

34
board members
85%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 8 states

ME
VA
TN
NC
SC
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Shepherd Center Foundation · exempt
  • Ssc Affiliates Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHEPHERD CENTER INC: 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 SHEPHERD CENTER INC?
SHEPHERD CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 184 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,169,893 to it, the largest being THE O WAYNE ROLLINS FOUNDATION ($5,492,600). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHEPHERD CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 184 organizations giving $20,169,893 in grants to SHEPHERD CENTER INC, 93 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHEPHERD CENTER INC?
THE O WAYNE ROLLINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,492,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHEPHERD CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 184funders 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