Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION
THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $713,360 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($320,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $556k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $713k
- Net assets
- $902k
What The Shepherd's Foundation does
Mission
Shepherd's foundation focuses on christ-centered, socially relevant, measurable, sustainable, and reproducible ministries that have a lasting effect on individuals and community partners in ukraine.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Camp maximum. Shepherd's foundation is currently the largest supporter of camp maximum, a christian camp and retreat center in zolotonosha, ukraine. Camp maximum hosts esl camps, sports camps, special needs camps, war veterans' camps, and family camps providing spiritual, educational, and recreational experiences to the people of ukraine and surrounding countries. Camp maximum is also used as a retreat center for churches and other large organizations who need a full-service facility for their conference needs. Team building, pastor's, family, and youth conferences take place there on a monthly basis. In 2025, camp maximum hosted 15 rental groups and 67 camping programs, serving 3,255 youth, adults, veterans and people with disabilities.camp maximum's new prosthetic clinic celebrated its grand opening in the spring of 2024 and now provides medical and prosthetic care to both civilians and military personnel. This one-of-a-kind center delivers timely, compassionate, high-quality care. In 2025, the program accepted 19 new patients fitting them with new prosthetics, helping them lead more functional and fulfilling lives. Plans are underway to expand the service capabilities of the…
$435,866 spentof which $395,541 as grants100% of program spendingMedical services through camp maximum in zolotonosha, ukraine, shepherd's foundation provides financial support for special needs children, adults, disabled war veterans and their families to attend special camps and conferences designed specifically for their needs.
Social services grants are given to foster families with at-risk children in ukraine. In 2025, shepherd's foundation continued to support the gorychenko family who are currently raising 11 children.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $435,866.
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 $267k to $1.1M (+297%).
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 THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION’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. 4 of the last 9 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
Marshall Wade
Chair
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 $26k → $110k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 FOUNDATION’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 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 58% · 2022 65% · 2023 38% — 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
80% of THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION'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 $145k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $569k 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 FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FOUNDATION: 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 FOUNDATION?
- THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $713,360 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($320,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $713,360 in grants to THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $320,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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