Florida · Nonprofit
GUIDING STAR TAMPA
GUIDING STAR TAMPA (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being TOM AND KATHY SHANNON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $62k
What Guiding Star Tampa does
Mission
This corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes; more specifically to establish comprehensive centers for women and families that uphold natural law and promote a new feminism.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Guiding Star Tampa assists in the care of women during pregnancy and child birth.
$39,084 spent95% of program spendingGuiding Star Tampa assists in the care of women during pregnancy and child birth.
$2,005 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,089.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $21k to $62k (+202%).
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 GUIDING STAR TAMPA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Leah Jacobson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of GUIDING STAR TAMPA’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
GUIDING STAR TAMPA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
“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
100% of GUIDING STAR TAMPA's grant income comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GUIDING STAR TAMPA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like GUIDING STAR TAMPA
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GUIDING STAR TAMPA: 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 GUIDING STAR TAMPA?
- GUIDING STAR TAMPA (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being TOM AND KATHY SHANNON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GUIDING STAR TAMPA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,000 in grants to GUIDING STAR TAMPA.
- Who is the largest funder of GUIDING STAR TAMPA?
- TOM AND KATHY SHANNON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUIDING STAR TAMPA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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