Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION
GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,165,438 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,975,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Guardianorg Foundation does
Mission
Guardian.org foundation is organized and operated to educate, advance, and inform public discourse and citizen participation around the most pressing issues of the time through the support and advancement of independent journalism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In keeping with the guardian.org foundation's mission to inform public discourse and citizen participation around the most pressing issues of the time, the grant funds were used solely to support investigative journalism which exposes human rights violations that persist in the world, journalism on the rise of gun violence and gun violence solutions, increased journalism on factory farming and animal cruelty, climate change, the health of oceans, biodiversity loss and species extinction, environmental injustice and efforts to address it, america's broken food systems, voting rights and democracy in the us, non-communicable diseases, workers' rights, access to housing, and vaccine equity.
$5,185,000 spentof which $5,185,000 as grants$5,961,068 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,185,000.
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 $4.9M to $1.9M (−62%).
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.
100% of GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Board chair
Asha Curran
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.9M.
21 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
25% 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 GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 24% · 2019 24% · 2020 28% · 2021 23% · 2022 24% · 2023 47% — 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
37% of GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION: 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 GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION?
- GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,165,438 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,975,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $23,165,438 in grants to GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,975,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 64 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