Virginia · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC
FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,049,923 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,073,087). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Friends of the Guest House Inc does
Mission
To provide formerly incarcerated women the structure, supervision,support, and assistance they need to move beyond who they were tobecome who they want to be.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Friends of guest house, inc. (the organization or guest house) was founded in 1974 to provide quality rehabilitative and reentry services to women involved in the criminal justice system, either as an alternative to incarceration or as a vehicle to assist women returning to the community from jails or prisons. Through a continuum of care that includes residential reentry programming, recovery support services, peer support, workforce and life skills development, outreach services, and recovery haven a structured residential substance use recovery program operated in partnership with national capital treatment & recovery the organization addresses the underlying barriers that contribute to justice involvement and instability. By addressing behavioral and physical healthcare, substance use recovery, employment, education, housing stability, parenting, and family/community reconnection, friends of guest house makes it possible for clients to break the cycle of incarceration by addressing its root causes. Among graduates of the program, fewer than 15 percent have re-offended. The organization is funded through a combination of contributions, grants, government contracts, and program…
$2,144,433 spent$539,557 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,144,433.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $4.1M (+61%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 6% · 2021 8% · 2022 16% · 2023 9% · 2024 4% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Sonja Allen
Executive director
Board chair
Deborah Minor
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $227k → $498k.
12 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. 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
FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 33% · 2019 17% · 2020 28% · 2021 13% · 2022 24% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“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
53% of FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
64% of FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.8M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC's revenue grew 23% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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 FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC: 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 FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,049,923 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,073,087). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $5,049,923 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,073,087 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 55 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