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Guam Humanities Council
Guam Humanities Council (GU) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,816 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($326,816). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $867k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $394k
- Net assets
- $495k
What Guam Humanities Council does
Mission
To foster community engagement and dialogue, inspire critical thinking, celebrate diversity and enrich the quality of island residents through the power of the humanities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Federal funding was cut which resulted in a decrease in employees, as well as a decrease in operational expenses.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
To foster community engagement and dialogue, inspire critical thinking, celebrate diversity and enrich the quality of life of residents through the power of the humanities.
$267,864 spent$852,426 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $267,864.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $345k to $511k (+48%).
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: 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Guam Humanities Council’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Christelyn Ochoco
Executive Director
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 broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $29k → $26k.
From the IRS filings of Guam Humanities Council’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
Guam Humanities Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Guam Humanities Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
Guam Humanities Council draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside GU, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Guam Humanities Council runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Guam Humanities Council receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.2M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$5.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Guam Humanities Council
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 GU
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% 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 Guam Humanities Council: 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 Guam Humanities Council?
- Guam Humanities Council (GU) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,816 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($326,816). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Guam Humanities Council have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $393,816 in grants to Guam Humanities Council, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Guam Humanities Council?
- FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS is the largest funder on record, with $326,816 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Guam Humanities Council find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in GU. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing