Texas · Nonprofit
Shepherds' Support Inc
Shepherds' Support Inc (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,434 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($218,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $458k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $404k
- Net assets
- $520k
What Shepherds' Support Inc does
Mission
The corporation is organized exclusively for the purpose of operating exclusively for religious, charitable, and educational purposes as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, either directly or by contributions to organizations qualifying as exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or corresponding section of any future federal tax code. In particular, the corporation is organized to encourage and equip spiritual leaders through educational, economic, and medical support for the honor of the Lord Jesus in accordance with the word of God, the Holy Bible.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Shepherds Support, Inc. provides learning environments that Encourage, Equip and Engage national Christian leaders and spouses to faithfully serve the Lord Jesus Christ and His mission. We do this through sending teaching teams and sponsoring training conferences throughout the less-resourced areas of the world. Also sending resources for churches and Christian ministries doing refugee relief work.
$477,980 spent$473,163 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $477,980.
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 2021 to 2022, from $374k to $468k (+25%).
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.
98% of Shepherds' Support Inc’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.
Chief executive
Rick Lowe
Executive Director
Board chair
David Butler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $118k.
5 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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' Support 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
Shepherds' Support Inc 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
100% 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' Support Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 85% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 79% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Shepherds' Support 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $404k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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' Support Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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' Support 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Shepherds' Support 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 Shepherds' Support Inc?
- Shepherds' Support Inc (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,434 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($218,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Shepherds' Support Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $404,434 in grants to Shepherds' Support Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Shepherds' Support Inc?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $218,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Shepherds' Support Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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