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GUIDING STAR PROJECT

EIN 45-4370118 IRONTON, MN

Revenue 2024
$182,417
Expenses 2024
$149,289

Program services were 72.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P40
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 238

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 6127), covering 4 subordinate organizations. matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OUR CENTERS AND AFFILIATES SERVE WOMEN WITH A WHOLE LIFE APPROACH THAT HONORS THEIR BODIES AND MINDS. WE BELIEVE YOU'RE NOT A NUMBER OR A PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED. YOU'RE A NATURAL WONDER. AND YOU DESERVE HEALTHCARE THAT CARES ABOUT YOU.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE GUIDING STAR PROJECT IS A NATIONWIDE FAMILY OF CARE CENTERS THAT EMPOWER WOMEN TO UNDERSTAND, EMBRACE, AND LOVE THEIR NATURAL BODIES. WE FACILITATE COOPERATION BETWEEN COMPASSIONATE CARE PROVIDERS TO SERVE WOMEN AND FAMILIES IN A GROWING COMMUNITY OF CONVENIENT, PROFESSIONAL, WELCOMING LOCATIONS. WE'RE THE "NEW NORM" IN WHOLISTIC WOMEN'S HEALTHCARE.

  • WE FACILITATE COOPERATION BETWEEN COMPASSIONATE CARE PROVIDERS TO SERVE WOMEN AND FAMILIES IN A GROWING COMMUNITY OF CONVENIENT, PROFESSIONAL, WELCOMING LOCATIONS.

    Expenses $108,351

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • LEAH JACOBSON

    CEO/BOARD CH

    Total calculated
    $16,825
    From this org
    $16,825
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • MARK CAVALIERE

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JASON COON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARY FERRARELLI

    SECRETARY/VI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERESA KENNEY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PATRICIA DE LARA SMITH

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRIS ZUBIATE

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $182,417
    Expenses
    $149,289
    Contributions
    $174,826
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $202,421
    Expenses
    $295,504
    Contributions
    $202,421
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $325,440
    Expenses
    $416,931
    Contributions
    $325,440
    Grants paid
    $50,008

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $344,915
    Expenses
    $352,976
    Assets (EOY)
    $217,982

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $338,313
    Expenses
    $173,368
    Assets (EOY)
    $202,217

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $179,471
    Expenses
    $236,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,276

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $222,179
    Expenses
    $156,265
    Assets (EOY)
    $200,518

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $79,241
    Expenses
    $77,941
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,279

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017
Principal officer
Lea
Mailing address
PO Box 238Ironton MN 56455
Website
theguidingstarproject.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • AVODAH FARM LLC

    $50,008

    2022 CHARITABLE DONATION

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 November 2014, reinstated 15 November 2014.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility GROUP.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.