- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Strengthening Civic Space
- Grant Amount $100,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2016–December 31, 2017
- Location Williamsburg, VA, United States
- Geographic Focus United States
About this grant
This grant provides continued general purpose support to GuideStar, a leading source of information about nonprofit organizations in the United States. GuideStar has 2.8 billion pieces of data on 2.5 million individual organizations, and 7.1 million individual users of its Web site. Another 185 Web sites and applications are powered by GuideStar data. 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. Most recently, the grantee has launched a fieldwide collection mechanism for quantitative programmatic data through its Platinum Nonprofit Profile level. Over the next two years, the grantee will continue to implement its GuideStar 2020 strategic plan, calling for better and broader data collection, data distribution, and data innovation.