Shepherd Foundation Ltd

Analysis

Shepherd Foundation Ltd is a registered charity in United States, based in Potomac, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Shepherd Foundation Ltd reported income of $474k and spending of $443k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $459k to $474k (+3.4%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Shepherd Foundation Ltd sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Divine Intervention for Youth Inc ($474k), The Freedom Center Inc ($474k) and Scituate Food Pantry Inc ($474k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. At year end it held assets of $564k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $564k.