Iowa · Nonprofit
GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA
GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,161 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($37,161). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $389k
What Guardian Project - Ia does
Mission
Support public-private leadership and collaboration in a mission to increase safety, build positive relationships and promote transparency, truth and justice between the des moines police department and the people it serves.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Guardian project-iowa works to increase safety in the des moines community. We have helped secure the funding to help initially equip the over 300 officers in the des moines police department with body cameras, and cameras for the patrol cars and storage as well. We have also been an ongoing supporter of urban dreams' winter car checkup which provides free safety checks for hundreds of residents' cars including free wiper blades and light bulbs, checking tires, topping off fluids and doing car seat checks.
Guardian project-iowa supports various programs in des moines in order to build positive relationships between the community and the des moines police department. We have spearheaded investing in facilitating ongoing programming for children during the summer months at evelyn davis park in the urban core of des moines. That programming includes daily educational, arts and crafts and stem activities, free swimming lessons, enrichment field trips and five sports clinics. We have also launched a des moines city program that supplied informative cards that had a free offer donated by local businesses so that officers could engage in conversations with younger people.
Guardian project-iowa works with flynn wright to create a website and use other promotional efforts to build positive relationships with the community and the des moines police department.
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $299k to $397k (+32%).
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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $40k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA’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
GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 38% — 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
55% of GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA?
- GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,161 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($37,161). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $67,161 in grants to GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA?
- COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $37,161 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUARDIAN PROJECT - IA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 3 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