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WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC

WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,815 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($115,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$3.8M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$203k
Net assets
$1.0M
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Waco Shepherd's Heart Inc does

Mission

We feed, clothe, empower and advocate for families in need throughout our community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Served 104,682 families; assisted with over 4.7 million lbs of food. Mobile distributions served 2,700 families per month delivered groceries to 1,300 homebound seniors twice a month. Bellmead pantry served 1,300 families per month, 25 churches helped deliver food to 1,750 rural families per month. Provided christmas to 3,800 homeless or underprivileged children. Resale store to assist families. Clothing, household items, and merchandise worth 15,000 plus distributed at no cost to families in need.

    $3,331,533 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,331,533.

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 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($167k)2018 Revenue 130 ($2.4M) Expenses 129 ($2.3M) Net assets 116 ($194k)2019 Revenue 135 ($2.4M) Expenses 137 ($2.5M) Net assets 103 ($172k)2020 Revenue 170 ($3.1M) Expenses 157 ($2.8M) Net assets 249 ($416k)2021 Revenue 120 ($2.2M) Expenses 114 ($2.1M) Net assets 234 ($391k)2022 Revenue 158 ($2.9M) Expenses 160 ($2.9M) Net assets 293 ($489k)2023 Revenue 154 ($2.8M) Expenses 147 ($2.7M) Net assets 369 ($616k)2024 Revenue 211 ($3.8M) Expenses 190 ($3.4M) Net assets 601 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (211)Expenses (190)Net assets (601)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 $468k to $1.2M (+162%).

$167k
$194k
$173k
$493k
$468k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.7M
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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

91% of WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
$27k
’18
−$21k
’19
$243k
’20
$98k
’21
−$45k
’22
$127k
’23
$387k
’24
0.6
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

Robert Gager

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed789791087
Joined·+4+2+1+4+1+1+0
No longer listed·3132031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $0 → $28k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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

WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC.

57%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 83% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — 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

50% of WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

74% of WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART 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. Of the $52k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Texas funders.

NC
TX
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $151k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC?
WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,815 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($115,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $202,815 in grants to WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $115,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WACO SHEPHERD'S HEART 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 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