Michigan · Nonprofit
CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN
CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,203,704 to it, the largest being THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($550,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $497k
What Calhoun County Guardian Dba Guardian Fin does
Mission
We benefit the community by providing financial stewardship and advocacy services to people in need. We promote the optimum independence and economic self-sufficiency of those we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Guardian finance and advocacy services is a non-profit that serves clients in southwest michigan. Our primary counties of service are kalamazoo and calhoun, although our services extend to clients within a 75-mile radius of our two offices. In our fiscal year of october 2024 through september 2025, we served 1,293 clients across our two offices. Our three most significant programs are guardianship, conservatorship, and representative payee. All programs seek to safeguard individuals, allowing them to reach their full potential and maximize their independence.legal guardianship occurs when an individual is found incompetent through a court of law. In many instances, this is the result of developmental disabilities, mental illness, or age-related illness such as dementia. Our organization safeguarded 408 individuals during the past year by making medical, placement, and legal decisions.conservatorship, described as guardianship of the estate, is an authority granted by the probate court. Our organization worked with 74 individuals in this capacity over the past year. Guardian finance and advocacy services was able to safeguard their assets, thus meeting their needs.our third program…
$1,562,044 spent$1,610,938 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,562,044.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $13M to $15M (+15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jennifer Warnos
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $108k → $6k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 60% · 2019 56% · 2020 69% · 2021 42% · 2022 33% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
63% of CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $356k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.2M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN?
- CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,203,704 to it, the largest being THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($550,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,203,704 in grants to CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN?
- THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALHOUN COUNTY GUARDIAN DBA GUARDIAN FIN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing