California · Public charity
The Guardsmen
To be educational, philanthropic and civic, to the end that the members shall become more efficient in their homes, broader in their sympathies, and more forceful in raising the standard of civic morality, particularly as it appertains to standards of juvenile morality, and to promote civic activities which tend to combat juvenile…
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $989k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $254,430
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Guardsmen funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $989k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $504k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $491k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $342k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $261k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $210k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $640k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $622k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco | $1,737,949 | 9 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco | $671,040 | 9 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco | $268,249 | 8 | 0% |
| Giants Community Fund | $237,579 | 7 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of Northern California | $210,500 | 9 | 0% |
| San Francisco Bay Area Council Bsa | $114,610 | 6 | 1% |
| SOAR For Youth | $103,465 | 9 | 2% |
| Okizu Foundation | $99,657 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay | $87,980 | 7 | 0% |
| Camp Phoenix | $68,700 | 8 | 6% |
Show all 49 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco | $1,737,949 | 9 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco | $671,040 | 9 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco | $268,249 | 8 | 0% |
| Giants Community Fund | $237,579 | 7 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of Northern California | $210,500 | 9 | 0% |
| San Francisco Bay Area Council Bsa | $114,610 | 6 | 1% |
| SOAR For Youth | $103,465 | 9 | 2% |
| Okizu Foundation | $99,657 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay | $87,980 | 7 | 0% |
| Camp Phoenix | $68,700 | 8 | 6% |
| Mission Dolores Academy | $67,967 | 3 | n/a |
| Golden Gate Area Council #023 | $67,945 | 3 | 0% |
| Todays Youth Matter | $64,565 | 8 | 3% |
| Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California | $62,060 | 7 | n/a |
| Girlventures | $43,050 | 6 | 1% |
| Archbishop Riordan High School | $41,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Girls Leading Girls | $36,631 | 6 | 33% |
| The Salvation Army | $36,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Big City Mountaineers | $35,283 | 6 | 1% |
| The Salvation Army | $33,895 | 3 | n/a |
| St Dorothys Church | $32,550 | 3 | n/a |
| Immaculate Conception Academy | $32,475 | 3 | n/a |
| Salesian High School | $30,800 | 1 | n/a |
| The Guardsmen | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation | $25,325 | 4 | 1% |
| Saint Raphael Church | $24,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Episcopal Camps and Conference Centers Inc | $23,280 | 3 | 4% |
| St Dorothys Rest | $22,365 | 2 | n/a |
| Ignatian Corporation Saint Ignatius High School | $17,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Light School | $15,400 | 1 | 0% |
| St Joseph Notre Dame High School | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aim High for High School | $10,649 | 4 | 0% |
| Golden Gate Boys Choir | $9,005 | 4 | 1% |
| Marin Catholic High School | $8,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Seven Tepees Youth Program | $7,280 | 3 | 0% |
| Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $6,720 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Brigid School | $6,240 | 1 | n/a |
| Seeds of Awareness | $4,900 | 2 | 0% |
| Aim High | $3,960 | 1 | 1% |
| American Diabetes Association | $3,536 | 1 | 0% |
| Outward Bound International Inc | $2,240 | 1 | n/a |
| Olympic Club Foundation | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| La Cocina | $1,115 | 1 | 0% |
| Miracle Messages | $1,088 | 1 | n/a |
| The Julie Foudy Leadership Foundation Inc | $749 | 1 | 1% |
| Mission Asset Fund | $721 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Unalayee Association | $675 | 1 | 0% |
| Formstack | $190 | 1 | n/a |
| The Spinsters of San Francisco | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($222k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Guardsmen supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Olympic Club Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The James Irvine Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Janet and Clint Reilly Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Guardsmen
- How much does The Guardsmen give?
- The Guardsmen reported 36 itemized grants totaling $988,890, out of $1,055,950 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Guardsmen fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (58%), Human Services (28%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are The Guardsmen's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco ($1.7M), Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco ($671k), Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco ($268k).
- Does The Guardsmen fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Guardsmen?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Olympic Club Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Guardsmen based?
- The Guardsmen is based in CA.
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