Guardian Institute

Analysis

Guardian Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in Sequim, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Guardian Institute reported income of $52k and spending of $72k, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $62k to $52k (-16%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Guardian Institute sits at the 18th percentile: it is larger than about 18% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 15th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Healthy Organizations and People Inc ($52k), Vinfen Corporation of Plain Inc ($52k) and Representative Payee Services Inc ($52k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $67k against liabilities of $312, net assets of $67k.