Illinois · Nonprofit
THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC
THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,995 to it, the largest being United Way of Knox County Indiana Inc ($170,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Evansville Endowment Fund Incshared funders
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Arkansasportfolio match
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Incportfolio match
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.
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 59% · 2018 71% · 2019 70% · 2020 70% · 2021 65% · 2022 79% · 2023 78% · 2024 55% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $31k → $20k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE GUARDIAN CENTER 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
THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 86% · 2019 87% · 2020 80% · 2021 74% · 2022 85% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $421 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Evansville Endowment Fund Incshared fundersIN · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Arkansasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thelma R Carrell Irrevocable Trust Xxx-Xx-XxxxlocalIN · funds 3 organizations near you
- National Children's Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sexually Abused Children's Relief Endeavor (Sacred)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Child Advocacy Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knot Today Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Virginia Child Abuse Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alabama Network of Children's Advocacy Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$8k
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 THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 THE GUARDIAN CENTER 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC?
- THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,995 to it, the largest being United Way of Knox County Indiana Inc ($170,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $234,995 in grants to THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC?
- United Way of Knox County Indiana Inc is the largest funder on record, with $170,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GUARDIAN CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing