Guidestream Charitable Gift Fund

Analysis

Guidestream Charitable Gift Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Spring Arbor, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Guidestream Charitable Gift Fund reported income of $3.7m and spending of $3.3m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $3.7m (+127%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 159%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Guidestream Charitable Gift Fund sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc ($3.7m), Traveling Press Fund Inc ($3.7m) and Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc ($3.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% and program service revenue 3.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $13.6m against liabilities of $7,730, net assets of $13.6m.