- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Strengthening Civic Space
- Grant Amount $110,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2014–December 31, 2015
- Location Williamsburg, VA, United States
- Geographic Focus United States
About this grant
This grant provides continued general purpose support to GuideStar, the premier source of information about nonprofit organizations in the United States. With data on over two million nonprofits in its database, millions of users of its free public services, and thousands of customers for its paid services, GuideStar has become an invaluable source of information to nonprofits and grantmakers. The grantee’s data services provide greater transparency for the nonprofit sector, encourage charitable giving by building public interest and trust, and enable individuals and institutions involved with charitable activities and organizations to make better decisions. Over the next two years, the grantee plans to shift from being only a Web site with financial data about nonprofits to a platform offering multidimensional data about social change. This will involve developing new online products and tools such as a common profile, issue pages, nonprofit sector indices, open data partnerships, and mobile device delivery.