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Guardian Project - Ia

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$169k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
2
Organizations funded FY2018
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100% of Guardian Project - Ia’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Des Moines Park & Recreation Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’18
0
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$168,884
Largest grant, FY2020
$168,884
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$389k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Recreation & Sports$179kHuman Services$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Easter Seal Society of Iowa Inc$10,00010%
The Miracle League of Des Moines Kiwanis$10,00013%

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About Guardian Project - Ia

How much does Guardian Project - Ia give?
Guardian Project - Ia reported 1 grants totaling $168,884 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Guardian Project - Ia fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (95%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Guardian Project - Ia's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Easter Seal Society of Iowa Inc ($10k), The Miracle League of Des Moines Kiwanis ($10k).
Where is Guardian Project - Ia based?
Guardian Project - Ia is based in IA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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