Guardian Trust Foundation Inc
Clearwater, FL · EIN 04-3625771. Reported 104 grants totalling $3,343,377 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Guardian Trust Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P80) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $375,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
19 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $407,450 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Arc Tampa Bay Foundation Inc | Clearwater, FL | $532,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lutheran Services Florida Inc | Tampa, FL | $270,000 | 7 | 5 | 2025 |
| North Florida Office of Public Guardian Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $257,621 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the Suncoast Inc | Clearwater, FL | $235,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Florida Guardian Ad Litem Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $180,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Floridas Children First Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $180,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Aging Solutions | Lutz, FL | $170,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Clearwater Free Clinic Inc | Clearwater, FL | $124,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fifth Circuit Public Guardian Corporation | Ocala, FL | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Adult Advocate Alliance Inc | Winter Haven, FL | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Life Concepts Inc | Orlando, FL | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Sages Theater Inc | Pinellas Park, FL | $90,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Learning Independence for Tomorrow Incorporated | Clearwater, FL | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Arc of Florida Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lighthouse of Pinellas Inc | Largo, FL | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Broward County Guardianship Assoc | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Dental Clinic Inc | Clearwater, FL | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Americus, GA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| South Florida Guardianship Program Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Hoffman Est, IL | $47,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tenth Circuit Public Guardian Inc | Winter Haven, FL | $46,347 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Covenant at Home Inc | Pensacola, FL | $45,910 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cup Inc | Tampa, FL | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Morning Star Catholic School Pinellas Park Inc | Pinellas Park, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Great Explorations Inc | Saint Petersburg, FL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Tennis for Fun | Brandon, FL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Penguin Project Foundation Inc | Peoria, IL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Arc Marion Inc | Ocala, FL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Reconnections Education Center | Odessa, FL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Aging Solutions Inc | Lutz, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Quest | Largo, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aging Solutions Inc | Lutz, FL | $24,637 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc | Clearwater, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Afire Serving Persons With Development Disabilities Inc | Clearwater, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Can Do Multiple Sclerosis | Edwards, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Freedom Sailing Camp of Florida Inc | Clearwater, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Tacachale | Gainesville, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ready for Life Inc | Largo, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alvin a Dubin Alzheimers Resource Center Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $7,162 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Foundation for Youth Development Inc | Tampa, FL | $6,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Agency for Persons With Disabilities - Friends of Tacachale | Tallahassee, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
27 of 41 (66%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Aging Solutions
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATION - Covenant at Home Inc
TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF EVERY LIFE TOUCHED BY PROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT, PERSONALIZED CARE, AND HONORING THE WISHES OF PATIENTS AND FAMILIES - The Arc Tampa Bay Foundation
PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT AND EMPOWER PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS - Florida's Children First Inc
STATEWIDE SPONSOR JAN 2022 - Florida Guardian Ad Litem Foundation
PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR GUARDIAN AD LITEM PROGRAMS AND CHILDREN AT RISK - Morning Star Catholic School Pinellas Park Inc
TO SERVE STUDENTS WITH A VARIETY OF LEARNING CHALLENGES AND RELATED DIFFICULTIES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | $407,450 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $344,500 | $23,500 |
| 2023 | 26 | $666,427 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 30 | $1,080,000 | $32,500 |
| 2025 | 13 | $845,000 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
96% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Guardian Trust Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 901 Chestnut St C, Clearwater, FL, 33756.
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