Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Guard Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $21k
- Granted FY2019
- 4
- Grants FY2019
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2019
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2019
- Median grant, FY2019
- $60
- Largest grant, FY2019
- $20,937
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 59
- FY2017 to FY2019
- States reached, FY2019
- 4
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2019, 50% of the organizations Guard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2019 | 4 | $21k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $61k | 41% |
| FY2017 | 59 | $68k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Wyoming Valley | $102,080 | 3 | 1% |
| Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Greater Hazleton Partners In Education | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,940 | 1 | 0% |
| Tecbridge | $2,400 | 2 | 1% |
| Misericordia University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wyoming Historical & Geological Society | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $1,350 | 1 | 0% |
| New Hampshire Catholic Charities | $1,330 | 3 | 0% |
| Osterhout Free Library | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Guard Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Guard Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Guard Foundation
- How much does Guard Foundation give?
- Guard Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $21,072 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
- What does Guard Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (68%), Community Improvement (8%), Health (5%).
- Who are Guard Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: United Way of Wyoming Valley ($102k), Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce ($10k), Greater Hazleton Partners In Education ($4k).
- Does Guard Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2019, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Guard Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Guard Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Luzerne Foundation, Allone Charities, Sordoni Foundation Inc.
- Where is Guard Foundation based?
- Guard Foundation is based in PA.
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