Shepherding Hope Foundation

Analysis

Shepherding Hope Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in New Orleans, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 June 2023, Shepherding Hope Foundation reported income of $259k and spending of $466k, spending 180% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $815k to $259k (-68%), an average of -25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Shepherding Hope Foundation sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Childrens World Impact Inc ($259k), Revolution 120 Inc ($259k) and Augusta Charity Classic Fund Inc ($258k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 24% of the total. At year end it held assets of $11.5m against liabilities of $519k, net assets of $11.0m.