New York · Nonprofit
GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC
GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,137 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($36,407). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Guild for Spiritual Guidance Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to offer spiritual seekers from diverse mindsets opportunities to explore ideas in safe community, in preparation and support for participants to be spiritual directors for others. This is lived out by offering a two-year program of spiritual formation, a one-year program in Spiritual Guidance Supervision training for spiritual directors, week long pilgrimages, and a variety of continuing programs for graduates and the public. The guild programs are open to all who seek to deepen their understanding of spirituality and the spiritual life as it integrates with the wisdoms of cosmology, depth psychology, and community. The program curriculum is designed for and is dedicated to inclusion of all spiritual seekers and works intentionally to bring together a diverse community of gender and sexual orientation, people of color, and all faith traditions. These programs serve approximately 75 people a year, and some are offered at low/no cost to encourage all to participate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Spring Retreat
$1,700 spent50% of program spendingFall Retreat
$1,700 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,400.
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 2021 to 2022, from $27k to $94k (+248%).
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.
83% of GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $30k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE 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
GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
98% 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 GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 76% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC'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 New York, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC: 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 GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC?
- GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,137 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($36,407). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $65,137 in grants to GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $36,407 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUILD FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 5 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