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Iowa · Nonprofit
GUARDIAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION (Iowa) is funded by 7 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $405,511 in grants to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES ($299,797). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GUARDIAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 67% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,908 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
$10k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $17k and 2 in 2018.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 SCHOLARS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
GUARDIAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 59% · 2019 91% · 2020 67% · 2021 88% · 2022 89% · 2023 87% · 2024 77% · 2025 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
GUARDIAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION is locally rooted: 77% of its grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 247 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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. view filing