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Guidestream Charitable Gift Fund
GuideStream Charitable Gift Fund dba GuideStream Donor Advised Funds GSDAF assists qualified charitable organizations by accepting contributions from donors for charitable grant-making purposes.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $827k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $846k
- $250k+1 grant · $344k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Free Methodist Church-USA | $344,205 |
| Fidelity Charitable Fund | $164,974 |
| Hope Church | $100,000 |
| Central Africa Healthcare Org | $87,985 |
| Oakdale Christian Academy | $83,151 |
| Aldersgate FM Church | $78,000 |
| Jackson Free Methodist Church | $75,334 |
| Wabash Park Camp | $74,500 |
| Central Christian College | $70,000 |
| George Fox University | $60,000 |
| Asbury Theological Seminary | $51,647 |
| Mancelona Free Methodist Church | $45,000 |
| In Better Hands | $36,000 |
| Free Methodist Foundation | $30,856 |
| Ligonier Ministries | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $858k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: General support for COUNT Ministries · General Support for Umri Christian Hospital · General support for Calvary Commission
Stated purpose: General Support for Holy Light Theological College
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
81 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACENTRAL AFRICA HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION9× · 2017–2025 · $642k · revenue +50%
- SASpring Arbor University9× · 2017–2025 · $637k · revenue +4%
- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY9× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- CGCHARLES G FINNEY HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $285k
- AMAlabama-Georgia Mission Coone grant, 2018 · $200k
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue +81%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over seventy countries around the world.
How this is measured
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 170 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTRAL AFRICA HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Spring Arbor University ↗
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Greenville College ↗
- Who funds CAMP TIMBERLEDGE INC ↗
- Who funds GuideStream Charitable Gift Fund ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds IMPACT MIDDLE EAST INC ↗
- Who funds In Better Hands Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO LIFE OF MICHIGAN EDUC FUND ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SONSET SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The White Foundation · Butterfield Memorial Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Gordon Christian Trust · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Lilly Endowment Inc · Lrg Impact · It's God's Business Spirit Give · Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Guidestream Charitable Gift Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guidestream Charitable Gift Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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