California · Nonprofit
GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES
GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,612 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $226k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $507k
What Guatemala Deaf Ministries does
Mission
Our mission is to provide the Deaf people of Guatemala with social economic and Biblical training and instruction through tutoring classes vocational classes and overall giving the Deaf a sense of community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The ministry employes 8 full-time and 1 part-time Guatemalan people both hearing and deaf as teachers administrators and maintenance personnel. In 2025 nearly 50 Deaf children were taught a language and given an opportunity for a better life. Classes were held for the parents so they could learn how to communicate with their Deaf children. Community classes are also taught giving schoolteachers police officers and other community personnel an opportunity to learn sign language.
$88,520 spent57% of program spendingThe ministry has a school bus a 15-passenger van 1 Honda CRVs and a Nissan pickup. All these vehicles are used in the ministry. Most of the Deaf people we serve cannot afford public transportation. We provide that assistance in helping them get to the school and the many other activities during the week.
$14,014 spent9% of program spendingThere are several activities during the year when the ministry provides food for our students their families and our staff. These activities include conferences federal holidays and Christmas. This is an important part of our ministry as food brings people together and also provide some economic relief.
$5,348 spent3% of program spendingBenevolence 956 Computer and Software expense 515 Conf. Conventions & Meetings 506 Equipment Repair and Maintenance 37 Furniture and Equipment under 1000 739 Apartment Expense 354 Information Technology 1,306 Legal and Accounting Fees 3,523 Ministry Center Supplies and Repairs 2,277 Medical Supplies 570 Misc. Expense 116 Office Supplies 31 Parking Fees 14 School Excursions 472 School Supplies 1,095 Shop Supplies 101 Transportation 1,644 Utilities 1,876 Restricted Funds Expense 9,963 Building Labor and Materials 20,412.
$46,507 spent30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $154,389.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $139k to $347k (+149%).
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.
95% of GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $171.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES’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
GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
97% 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 GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 82% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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
GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES?
- GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,612 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $37,612 in grants to GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $24,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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