Texas · Nonprofit
GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC
GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC (Texas) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,541,974 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ($1,294,822). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $934k
What Guardianship Services Inc does
Mission
Guardianship services, inc. (gsi) answers the call to protect tarrant county's vulnerable adults from abuse, neglect and exploitation with services ranging from guardianship to money management, victim advocacy and financial literacy education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Guardianship services, inc. (gsi) provides representative payee services as well as money management services which teach persons with cognitive deficits to become more independent. These alternatives frequently delay or prevent the establishment of a guardianship. They are also highly effective at preventing financial exploitation. These voluntary services are less restrictive alternatives to guardianship and include bill payer services which help at-risk clients create and follow a budget, organize and pay bills as well as representative payee services which provide a higher level of income management and security to at-risk adults receiving social security, supplemental security income or veterans affairs benefits. Included in the money management program is the financial exploitation prevention center, creating a unified network of partners committed to the prevention, protection, and prosecution of financial exploitation of aging and/or disabled adults in tarrant county. The fepc unites gsi with the tarrant county district attorney, adult protective services, and more than 10 social service partners. Gsi coordinates services of participating agencies, all dedicated to the…
$1,007,846 spent$56,553 earned by the program55% of program spendingGsi serves as guardian of last resort and is called upon by tarrant county probate courts when no trusted relative or friend is available. It provides compassionate care by texas certified guardians to adults living with cognitive, intellectual or developmental disabilities. In tarrant county, concerned individuals can refer wards directly to the court, rather than having to hire an attorney. Guardians are certified by the judicial branch certification commission and adhere to standards created by the board.
$812,363 spent$165,250 earned by the program45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,820,209.
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 $978k to $1.4M (+41%).
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 61% · 2018 70% · 2019 66% · 2020 68% · 2021 72% · 2022 69% · 2023 69% · 2024 71% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Lyn F Scott
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $130k → $238k.
4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC’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
GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 53% · 2019 77% · 2020 24% · 2021 65% · 2022 63% · 2023 29% — 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
75% of GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
97% of GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $158k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$158k
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 GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC?
- GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC (Texas) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,541,974 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ($1,294,822). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,541,974 in grants to GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $1,294,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 26 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