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THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC

THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $949,491 to it, the largest being FREDRICK D & KAREN G SCHAUFELD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$999k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$949k
Net assets
$4.0M
10/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What The Good Shepherd Alliance Inc does

Mission

Gsa is organized to provide persons in need with clothes, food, shelter, counseling and other necessary and proper services so as to assist people in times of family and personal crises.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides persons in need with clothes, food, shelter,counseling and other necessary and proper services so as to assist them in their time of crisis.

    $641,617 spentof which $9,264 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $641,617.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($911k) Net assets 100 ($3.6M)2018 Revenue 67 ($848k) Expenses 105 ($955k) Net assets 97 ($3.5M)2019 Revenue 47 ($600k) Expenses 85 ($776k) Net assets 92 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 53 ($669k) Expenses 76 ($696k) Net assets 91 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 66 ($831k) Expenses 67 ($609k) Net assets 98 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 79 ($994k) Expenses 74 ($675k) Net assets 103 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 73 ($924k) Expenses 77 ($703k) Net assets 109 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 79 ($999k) Expenses 94 ($860k) Net assets 113 ($4.0M)
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Revenue (79)Expenses (94)Net assets (113)Peer revenue range

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 $4.6M to $6.8M (+47%).

$4.9M
$4.7M
$4.5M
$4.4M
$4.6M
$6.8M
$7.7M
$8.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 30% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 44% · 2021 29% · 2022 12% · 2023 1% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

64% of THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$355k
’17
−$107k
’18
−$177k
’19
−$27k
’20
$222k
’21
$318k
’22
$220k
’23
$138k
’24
24
months of
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

Hugh Forsythe

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed791466688
Joined·+2+9+1+1+0+4+1
No longer listed·0491021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $336k → $37k.

6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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

THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

27% 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 THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC.

42%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 50% · 2019 68% · 2020 57% · 2021 72% · 2022 69% · 2023 59% — broadly stable.

“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

36% of THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.

WI
NJ
VA
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $249k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve23.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 16%Fundraising 4%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC?
THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $949,491 to it, the largest being FREDRICK D & KAREN G SCHAUFELD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $949,491 in grants to THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC?
FREDRICK D & KAREN G SCHAUFELD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE 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 21 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