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SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC
SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $644,807 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $623k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $645k
- Net assets
- $401k
What Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty Inc does
Mission
The shepherd higher education consortium on poverty (shecp) encourages the study of poverty as a complex social problem, by expanding and improving educational opportunities for college students in a wide range of disciplines and career trajectories. Through its programs, shecp and its member institutions prepare students for a lifetime of professional and civic efforts to diminish poverty and enhance human capability, while also supporting connections among students, faculty, staff, and alumni engaged in the study of poverty.overview of the consortium poverty studies education:student participation in shepherd consortium poverty studies begins with a gateway, introductory, interdisciplinary course on poverty. Students completing that course or a surrogate for it are eligible to participate in the internship program that is more fully described under program services. The internship is a key component of an education culminating in additional course work (including a capstone course or
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Internship program--shecp unites students with agencies that work in distressed communities. Shecp matches college students in full-time eight-week volunteer internships, serving organizations in cities and towns across the u.s. Students learn first hand about the multiple dimensions of poverty in the u.s. By working alongside individuals seeking to improve their communities. The agencies focus on education, healthcare, legal services, housing, hunger, social and economic needs, and community building efforts. Students work with agencies that fit their intellectual and professional interests in order to develop their experience and skills for future civic involvement and employment. Participating students are engaged in a competitive application and interview process at their home institution in order to be accepted into the program. The internship begins with a two day opening conference and ends with a two day closing conference. During the internship, students live and work together, creating new networks and friendships. Shecp coordinated and paid for traveling and housing, and each student received a stipend for food and commuting expenses.
$337,927 spent$274,700 earned by the program95% of program spendingConsortium programming--on site consultation for each member school and for prospective member schools about their courses, with staff about their involvement in the internship program, with students about how they can augment their participation in poverty studies, and with development offices and administrators about soliciting resources to augment the members poverty studies programming. Advice is collected and best practices disseminated among member schools to enhance the educational programming that members provide their students.
$18,516 spent5% of program spendingConferences--the internship experience is bookended by an opening and closing conference. A two-day opening conference provides interns a comprehensive introduction and orientation to learning outcomes to be achieved during the internship. During the closing conference students provide interactive presentations to their fellow interns and selected experts. Students are exposed to notable guest speakers who make an inmpact on poverty in the u.s.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $356,443.
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 2019 to 2020, from $524k to $130k (−75%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 7% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Jen Handy
Executive director
Board chair
Tiffanie Spencer
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $31.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY 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
SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 91% · 2019 28% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
How long its funders stay
11% of SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 21% 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
51% of SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $318k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $327k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC?
- SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $644,807 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $644,807 in grants to SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC?
- THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHEPHERD HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ON POVERTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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