Georgia · Nonprofit
SHEPHERD CENTER INC
SHEPHERD CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 189 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,829,743 to it, the largest being THE O WAYNE ROLLINS FOUNDATION ($5,492,600). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $366M
- Funders on record
- 189
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $847M
What Shepherd Center Inc does
Mission
Shepherd center's primary purpose is to provide acute and rehabilitative hospital care to patients with spinal cord injuries, acquired brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, and other neuromuscular and neurological conditions. We strive to be the most comprehensive catastrophic care specialty hospital in the world, committed to improving our patients' lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In reference to the provision of patient care services, shepherd center is dedicated to helping people who have experienced catastrophic injury or disease rebuild their lives with hope, dignity, and independence, advocating for their full inclusion in all aspects of community life. In the last fiscal year, Shepherd Center Incurred expenses to provide services for 944 inpatient admissions, 48,808 inpatient days, 58,117 day patient visits, and 81,339 outpatient visits.
$221,796,947 spentof which $1,695,467 as grants$281,359,017 earned by the program88% of program spendingBecause of the generous financial support of the community, shepherd center is able to provide many community funded services that are not available in other hospitals. Shepherd center offers services such as family housing and training, expanded therapeutic recreation services, assistive technology and adaptive equipment, vocational training, as well as medical care for patients without the ability to pay for these services.
$23,751,139 spent$22,034,255 earned by the program9% of program spendingWith regard to research activity, shepherd center is a site for leading-edge research and provides important outcomes tracking that help shape the face of rehabilitation in the united states. Our vision is to be a center of excellence in patient care, participating in research that will achieve the highest outcomes and improve the lives of our patients and families.
$7,322,092 spent$5,749,517 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $252,870,178.
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 2023 to 2024, from $760M to $899M (+18%).
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
James H Shepherd Iii
President/CEO
Board chair
Alana Shepherd
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.7M.
18 of 189 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 189 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 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
32% 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.
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.
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
82% of SHEPHERD CENTER INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
SHEPHERD CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
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.
- Department of Health and Human Services$20.9M
- Department of Defense$1.9M
- Social Security Administration$900k
- 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
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC?
- SHEPHERD CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 189 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,829,743 to it, the largest being THE O WAYNE ROLLINS FOUNDATION ($5,492,600). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHEPHERD CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 189 organizations giving $21,829,743 in grants to SHEPHERD CENTER INC, 97 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 189 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing