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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 FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$254k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$2.1MHuman Services$1.0MPhilanthropy$193kRecreation & Sports$124kInternational$44kEducation$38kHealth$37kReligion$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $988,890, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,055,950 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $67,060 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $596k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
  • $250k+1 grant · $254k
$17,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Clubs of San SF$254,430
Catholic Charities CYO$76,230
Sacred Heart Cathedral Prepar$44,000
Archbishop Riordan High Schoo$41,800
Girl Scouts of Northern CA$40,000
Mission Dolores Academy$37,400
De Marillac Academy$35,200
Salesian High School$30,800
Golden Gate Area Boy Scouts$30,000
St Peters School$28,600
Immaculate Conception Academy$26,400
Giants Community Fund$25,000
St Raphael School$24,200
YMCA of San Francisco Camp J$21,300
The Bishops Ranch Camp$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $994k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA of San Francisco Camp J: $21k → 7%AIM HIGH: $4k → 8%MIRACLE MESSAGES: $1k → 10%YMCA of San Francisco Camp J: $14k → 7%ROSE RESNICK LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 10%YMCA POINT BONITA: $2k → 8%Catholic Charities CYO: $95k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO: $95k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO: $93k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO: $76k → 9%Catholic Charities CYO: $76k → 9%Catholic Charities CYO: $70k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO: $61k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO: $60k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO: $45k → 9%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $54k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%YMCA of San Francisco: $50k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%YMCA Presidio: $14k → 10%YMCA PRESIDIO: $13k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $12k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $12k → 10%YMCA PRESIDIO: $8k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $3k → 10%GirlVentures: $9k → 10%GIRLVENTURES: $8k → 10%GIRLVENTURES: $8k → 10%GIRLVENTURES: $6k → 10%GIRLVENTURES: $5k → 10%GIRLVENTURES: $5k → 10%GIRLVENTURES: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 30 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
16

Total granted

$4.2M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+10%

Still filing today

63%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +65%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $671k · revenue +60%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    8× · 2017–2025 · $268k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TG
    The Guardsmengraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +37%
  • TG
    The Guardsmen & Okizu Fdtn
    one grant, 2024 · $11k
  • SB
    SAINT BRIGID SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Girl Scouts of California's Central Coast

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence & character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
2
San Francisco Junior Glens Soccer Association

To provide athletic opportunities to the youth of san francisco bay area by providing low cost opportunities to learn, play and participate in soccer by obtaining training in clinics, play and participate in leagues and tournaments.

Recreation & Sports
3
Santa Catalina School

Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…

Education
4
Grand Canyon Council Inc Boy Scouts of America

The mission of scouting america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. (continued on schedule o)programs of scouting america and grand…

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5
Boy Scouts of America 35 Marin Council

The marin council of the boy scouts of america, a california nonprofit public benefit corporation, is chartered by the boy scouts of america to promote the scouting program in marin county.

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6
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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7
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
8
Boy Scouts of America 55 Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council

The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law. scout oath: on my honor, i will do my best to do…

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9
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
10
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
11
University Camps

Unicamp student volunteers harness the healing power of the wilderness to provide a unique outdoor camping experience for at-risk children. through relationship-building, leadership and character development, and just plain fun, unicamp…

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12
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 63 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1,737,949 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCOGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $210,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIACAMP PHOENIX: $68,700 · Youth Development+2 more: $37,280 · Youth DevelopmentCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $671,040 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $268,249 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO…SOAR For Youth: $103,465 · Human ServicesSOAR For YouthGIRLVENTURES: $43,050 · Human Services+3 more: $11,768 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA: $114,610 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COU…OKIZU FOUNDATION: $99,657 · OtherOKIZU FOUNDATIONYoung Men's Christian Association of the East Bay: $87,980 · OtherYoung Men's Christian Asso…MISSION DOLORES ACADEMY: $67,967 · OtherMISSION DOLORES ACADEMYGOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #023: $67,945 · OtherGOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #…TODAYS YOUTH MATTER: $64,565 · OtherTODAYS YOUTH MATTEREPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA: $62,060 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DI…Sacred Heart Cathedral Prepar: $44,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL: $41,800 · Other+30 more: $453,460 · Other+30 moreGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $237,579 · PhilanthropyGIRLS LEADING GIRLS: $36,631 · Recreation & SportsBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $35,283 · Recreation & SportsEPISCOPAL CAMPS AND CONFERENCE CENTERS INC: $23,280 · Recreation & SportsGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $675 · Recreation & SportsNorthern Light School: $15,400 · EducationAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL: $10,649 · EducationOUTWARD BOUND INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,240 · Education+1 more: $749 · EducationALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION: $25,325 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $3,536 · Health
Youth Development$2,054,429Human Services$1,097,572Other$1,104,044Philanthropy$237,579Recreation & Sports$100,869Education$29,038Health$28,861

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1,737,949 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $671,040 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $268,249 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $237,579 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $210,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA: $114,610 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSOAR For Youth: $103,465 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $99,657 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the East Bay: $87,980 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP PHOENIX: $68,700 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetGOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #023: $67,945 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTODAYS YOUTH MATTER: $64,565 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetGIRLVENTURES: $43,050 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGIRLS LEADING GIRLS: $36,631 over 6y, 33% of budgetBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $35,283 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Guardsmen: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION: $25,325 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEPISCOPAL CAMPS AND CONFERENCE CENTERS INC: $23,280 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetNorthern Light School: $15,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL: $10,649 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN GATE BOYS CHOIR: $9,005 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM: $7,280 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $6,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF AWARENESS: $4,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAIM HIGH: $3,960 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $3,536 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLYMPIC CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA COCINA: $1,115 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JULIE FOUDY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $749 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMISSION ASSET FUND: $721 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Unalayee Association: $675 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Spinsters of San Francisco: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA ↗
  • Who funds SOAR For Youth ↗
  • Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay ↗
  • Who funds CAMP PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #023 ↗
  • Who funds TODAYS YOUTH MATTER ↗
  • Who funds GIRLVENTURES ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS LEADING GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
  • Who funds The Guardsmen ↗
  • Who funds ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL CAMPS AND CONFERENCE CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Northern Light School ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Olympic Club Foundati…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…East Bay Community Fo…Jewish Community Fede…Robert and Dana Emery…T Gary and Kathleen R…United Way of the Bay…The James Irvine Foun…Salesforce FoundationJanet and Clint Reill…
The San Francisco FoundationCA33.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Guardsmen funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Guardsmen. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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