Arizona · Nonprofit
THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC
THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,224 to it, the largest being HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN ARIZONA ($76,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $117k
- Net assets
- $17M
What The Guidance Center Inc does
Mission
To improve the behavioral health of the people of our community. To be the provider of choice for behavioral health in northern arizona, offering a full range of high-quality, cost-effective services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult outpatient services: tgc programs in outpatient services offer a scope of practice that includes: psychiatry, nursing and medication services, behvioral health crisis, pre-petition screenig, care/case management, peer support, vocational rehabilitation, and counseling in both individual and group formats. The overall goal is to improve the behavioral health of adults with serious mental illnesses or other mental and/or substance use conitions through the provision of high-quality, cost effective outpatient services. Treatment implements evidence-based therapy and service models. Staff are clinically superivsed by licensed behavioral health professionals and internal quality management ensures excellence in the provision of care.
$9,946,730 spent$8,754,485 earned by the program50% of program spendingPsychiatric acute care unit: a 16-bed level 1 accredited psychiatric hospital serving high-risk individuals needing intensive treatment for stabilization from danger and dysfunction. Services include title 36 pre-petition screening/court-ordered evaluations and treament, psychiatric acute care, and restraints/seclusions capability. The facility accommodates individuals with many types of disabilities. The unit provides hospitalization, psychiatric evaluation, medication stabilization, 24-hour nursing, telehealth and emergency psychiatric care which includes voluntary and involuntary hospitalization.
$5,505,940 spent$4,845,982 earned by the program28% of program spendingThe substance abuse residential recovery program: a 16-bed co-ed adult unit serving high-risk individuals needing intensive treament with respite from their life in the community. Services are prioritized to pregnant women, women with dependent children, intravenous drug users and individuals struggling with opioids. Implemented a sober living fund to assist low income members who complete the sarrp program in finding affordable sober living arrangements to help maintain sobriety and provide a stable living situation.
$1,926,670 spent$1,695,733 earned by the program10% of program spendingCrisis & intake services: tied to the statewide crisis line and partnered with another provider for mobile crisis services, tgc's crisis services is staffed 24/7 with master's level clinicians and bachelor's level care managers who help individuals struggling with complex issues with an assessment and direct referral into the crisis stabilization unit (csu) or psychiatric acute care (pac). Crisis clinicians also provide assessments in the coconino county detention facility. Crisis clinicians evaluate individuals who may be referred for possible involuntary commitment should their risk level demand it and they are not willing to accept treatment.
$1,478,483 spent$1,301,268 earned by the program7% of program spendingResidential programs
$1,157,634 spent$1,018,877 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,015,457.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $27M to $22M (−18%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 0% · 2022 17% · 2023 10% · 2024 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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
Devon Forrest Mba Ma
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Jon Perez Phd
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $188.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Narbha Institute Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE GUIDANCE 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 GUIDANCE CENTER INC 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
86% 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 GUIDANCE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 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
66% of THE GUIDANCE CENTER 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 $40k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like THE GUIDANCE CENTER 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Narbha Institute · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC?
- THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,224 to it, the largest being HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN ARIZONA ($76,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $117,224 in grants to THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC?
- HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION-NORTHERN ARIZONA is the largest funder on record, with $76,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 6 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