Hi All,Guidestar is a website to help users find information about nonprofit organizations. Basically Guidestar gathers and disseminates information about IRS registered nonprofit organizations.
It provides information about each organizations mission, legitimacy, impact, reputation, finance, programs, transparency, governance and more. To learn even more about Guidestar click on this link with is their 'About Us' page.
Guidestar has a search box at the top of the page - in addition users can click on boxes at the top left side of the page on Geography, Organization and Financials for additional links. Users can also type in the state, zip code and other geographical information to find a nonprofit organization.
When a nonprofit organization of interest is found, users can find the organizations' mission statement, ruling year (year the IRS granted the organization tax exempt status), President/CEO, contact information, EIN and keywords related to the nonprofit.
Users are allowed 5 free profiles before they are 'locked' out of the site. However, by creating yor own free account, users can unlock unlimited profile views!
Links to Programs can be found at the top of the page. In addition, Financials can be found at the other link at the top of the page as well. Operational information is available as well. However, to find this information (Program, Financial, Operational information) users will need to create a free account on the site....
Once you create the free account users will see the information available to users on Guidestar. For nonprofit information its a great resource!
Enjoy the site!
Regards,
Stu
