Colorado · Nonprofit
SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY
SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,394 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($172,224). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $478k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $319k
- Net assets
- $291k
What Shepherds Heart Ministry does
Mission
To bring healing and restoration to pastoral couples, missionaries and ministry leaders who are wounded due to full-time ministry anywhere in the world where there is an un met need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Intensives: approximately 40% of budget the primary purpose of Shepherds Heart Ministry is to provide 6-day counseling intensives with pastors, missionaries and ministry leaders whose marriages are in trouble, who are experiencing burnout due to the ministry or have experienced some sort of moral failure in their marriages in one of our counseling centers in colorado, south carolina, arizona in the us, canada, israel and mexico.
$181,971 spent40% of program spendingPrevention: approximately 25% of budget the second purpose, following crisis intervention is prevention. Shm conducts marriage conferences, leadership conferences, and pastor's conferences in the us, isreal, ecuador, canada, and mexico and does training with various pastoral and missionary organizations and church staffs for the purpose of teaching prevention skills so that crisis does not occur. These prevention sessions take place individually or with groups.
$136,478 spent30% of program spendingTraining: approximately 25% of budgetdevelopment of a 15-month on-line training institute to equip pastors, missionaries, and ministry leaders with counseling tools both for the laboratory of their own lives and for the congregants who seek them out for counseling. We graduated our first class in december of 2022 and are expanding it to canada, mexico, africa, nepal, france and ecuador and ecuador beginning next september 2024 with 85 students.
$136,478 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $454,927.
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 $150k to $331k (+121%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
David Anderson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $44k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY’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
SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 72% · 2019 50% · 2020 57% · 2021 98% · 2022 75% · 2023 36% — 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.
Where its funders are
65% of SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY'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 $111k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $209k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY is better cushioned than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY: 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 SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY?
- SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,394 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($172,224). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $319,394 in grants to SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $172,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 5 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