We provide Charity Search to help you research charities you might like to support.

If a charity you want to support is not in this database, it does not mean they are ineligible for grants. You can still recommend a grant to any U.S.-based public charity.

  

Search Tips

 
  • -The search is not case sensitive. For example, searching on GuideStar, guidestar, Guidestar, guIdesTar, or any other combination of the word will return the same search results.
  • -By default, the search results page lists organizations whose GuideStar Reports contain all of the terms in your query. For example, typing cats dogs in the Keyword field will return only those organizations whose reports contain both words.
  • -Use the wildcard character (*) to find organizations whose reports include all forms of a search term. For example, using school* as the keyword will find reports that include the words school, schools, schooling, schoolchild, and schoolchildren.
  • -Use the subtraction sign (-) to eliminate terms from a search. For example, using angels –animal will find organizations that use angel in their name or description but are not involved in animal welfare.
  • -Use boolean terms to expand or refine a search. Use or to expand a search; use and with terms enclosed in parentheses to narrow it. To find reports that contain either the word cats or the word dogs, for example, use cats or dogs as the search term. To find homeless shelters that have food banks, use (food bank* or food pant*) and homeless as the search term.
  • -Use a phrase enclosed in quotation marks to find organizations whose names include commonly used words. The search engine stops reading the query terms when it encounters commons words such as a, for, in, the, to, and united. To find an organization whose name includes common words, put the organization's name in quotation marks: “christmas in april” “habitat for humanity” “united way”
  • -Each search results page lists a maximum of 1,000 organizations.
  • -GuideStar Participants — organizations that have added information to the GuideStar database — appear first in the search results. Nonprofits for which GuideStar has Form 990 information appear next, and all other organizations are listed at the end of the search results. The nonprofits are listed in alphabetical order within each of these three categories.