GuideStar for Researchers

GuideStar promotes philanthropy and greater efficiency in the nonprofit sector by making valuable information about exempt organizations accessible to researchers. Whether you're looking for prospects or funders or doing general research on the nonprofit sector, you'll find the information you need at GuideStar.

A Single Source

Better information means better decision making. GuideStar's database contains data on more than 900,000 public charities, approximately 118,000 private foundations, and nearly half a million other exempt organizations.

GuideStar at Work

Use Grant Explorer to discover relationships between grantmakers and grantees. See amounts granted. Find all of the foundations a particular foundation leader is associated with. Interested in a charity's historical performance? GuideStar Analyst Reports let you examine financial details over time. Want to do your own analysis? Custom Data Sets can be created from the hundreds of Form 990 and 990-PF fields that GuideStar keys, allowing you to use your own tools for analysis.

"GuideStar has been an irreplaceable tool since the day it went online. I can't think of any other source that is of such practical value to all types of users, equally indispensable to researchers, nonprofits, philanthropic institutions, the media, and the general public. They have done a remarkable and quite responsible job of putting information at the public's fingertips while educating users how to interpret it and use it to further the public good."Kathleen Costello, Director Gianneschi Center for Nonprofit Research
California State University, Fullerton