Virginia · Nonprofit
The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia
The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,655 to it, the largest being THE ADLER FOUNDATION INC ($55,400). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $455k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $187k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia does
Mission
Promote and support independent living for mature adults through volunteer opportunities, transportation assistance, support services, lifelong learning and cultural enrichment opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Improve quality of life as we age through supportive programs and services, personal enrichment and volunteer engagement. Services include medical and companion transportation, social gatherings that include both instructional and entertainment events, continuing education classes, caregiver support group, Thanksgiving Service and Community Luncheon, friendly callers, handy helpers, CarFit assessment and monthly group dining-out lunches.
$225,156 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $225,156.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $503k to $989k (+97%).
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 27% · 2023 13% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia’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. 1 of the last 6 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
Carolyn Pennington
Executive Director
Board chair
William Scott Schroth
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $34k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia’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
The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 44% — 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
The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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
The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia: 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 The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia?
- The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,655 to it, the largest being THE ADLER FOUNDATION INC ($55,400). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $186,655 in grants to The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia?
- THE ADLER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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