Kansas · Nonprofit
SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS
SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS (Kansas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $429,672 to it, the largest being MENORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ($109,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $430k
- Net assets
- $244k
What Shepherd's Center of Kansas City Kansas does
Mission
To link older adults together in conceiving, planning, making decisions and the doing of services and programs that help some to survive and others to find meaning for life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Home Services and Senior Support Services The Shepherds Center provides home services including a friendly visitor program and a minor home repair program. In 2024, volunteers were matched with 4 older adults for phone and in-person visiting. The repair program ncludes 2 regular volunteers and multiple one-day events with groups from churches and other organizations. In 2024 we completed more than 160 repairs on omes of lower to moderate income older adults. More than 600 volunteer hours were logged with these two service programs.
$139,585 spent92% of program spendingOther Programs Other programs at the Shepherds Center of KCK include Adventures in Learning, a monthly series that includes informational and education workshops, blood pressure screenings, chair exercises, entertainment, lunch and social networking. Other programs include creative classes such as crochet, knitting, scrapbooking, cardmaking, book discussion and a prayer shawl group. In addition, Shepherds Center sponsors occasional Lunch an Learn Health Enrichment events. More than 600 participants were engaged across these programs in 2019 and volunteer hours totaled more than 1062.
$11,329 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $150,914.
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 2020 to 2021, from $158k to $246k (+55%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2023 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
Melissa Bynum
Executive director
Board chair
Chandra Ward
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $37k → $33k.
2 of 9 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.
From the IRS filings of SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS’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'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 47% · 2019 49% · 2020 41% · 2021 35% · 2022 51% · 2023 59% — 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
43% of SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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
SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS
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In Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS?
- SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS (Kansas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $429,672 to it, the largest being MENORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ($109,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $429,672 in grants to SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS?
- MENORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $109,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 9 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