The Guy Fieri Foundation

Analysis

The Guy Fieri Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Petaluma, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, The Guy Fieri Foundation reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.3m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $223k to $2.2m (+886%), an average of +77% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 563%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Guy Fieri Foundation sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rise Alliance for Children Inc ($2.2m), Green Pines Academy ($2.2m) and Kipp Texas Future Fund ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 24% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $139k. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $70k, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 1 employees.