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THE GUARDSMEN

EIN 94-1196194 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$3,577,997
Expenses 2024
$2,354,428

Program services were 49.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O200
Classification
1000
Street
550 MONTGOMERY ST STE 700

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO BE EDUCATIONAL, PHILANTHROPIC AND CIVIC, TO THE END THAT THE MEMBERS SHALL BECOME MORE EFFICIENT IN THEIR HOMES, BROADER IN THEIR SYMPATHIES, AND MORE FORCEFUL IN RAISING THE STANDARD OF CIVIC MORALITY, PARTICULARLY AS IT APPERTAINS TO STANDARDS OF JUVENILE MORALITY, AND TO PROMOTE CIVIC ACTIVITIES WHICH TEND TO COMBAT JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; AND TO PROMOTE IN PARTICULAR ATHLETIC GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS AND TO ASSIST IN THEIR ATTAINMENT OF THE TRUE IDEALS OF SPORTSMANSHIP.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE AT-RISK YOUTH WITH CAMPERSHIP AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES.

  • CAMPERSHIP PROGRAMEACH SUMMER THE ORGANIZATION HELPS ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN FROM THE GREATER BAY AREA AND FROM VARIOUS ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS ATTEND OUTDOOR AND OVERNIGHT CAMP PROGRAMS. DURING THEIR TIME AWAY FROM HOME, THEY LEARN TO APPRECIATE THE OUTDOORS, PARTICIPATE IN GROUP ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCE PERHAPS FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE JOY AND EXCITEMENT OF JUST BEING A CHILD. ANNUALLY, THESE ACTIVITIES PROVIDE CHILDREN ACCESS TO ACADEMICALLY, CULTURALLY, AND ATHLETICALLY ENRICHING ACTIVITIES THAT THEY OTHERWISE WOULD NOT ATTEND.

    Expenses $570,549 · Grants $552,000

  • SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMTHE GUARDSMEN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM WAS STARTED IN 1998 IN AN EFFORT TOPROVIDE A BETTER EDUCATION AND A BETTER CHANCE IN LIFE TO DISADVANTAGED BAY AREA YOUTH. THE PROGRAM PAYS 50% OF TUITION, UP TO A MAXIMUM OF $2,200 ANNUALLY, FOR THEIR RECIPIENTS TO ATTEND A BAY AREA PRIVATE SCHOOL. CHILDREN CAN ENTER THE PROGRAM BETWEEN KINDERGARTEN AND THE 9TH GRADE. ONCE THEY ARE ACCEPTED INTO THE PROGRAM, THEY MAY ONLY RECEIVE FUNDING EACH YEAR THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL IF THEY REAPPLY ANDCONTINUE TO MEET THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS. THIS PROGRAM CURRENTLY SUPPORTS 218 CHILDREN IN 41 SCHOOLS IN 9 BAY AREA COUNTIES. ALL RECIPIENTS QUALIFY AS ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED UNDER FEDERAL GUIDELINES.

    Expenses $558,715 · Grants $478,950

  • Other grants includes miscellaneous donations made during FY24 including tree donations and a $25,000 donation to the Giants Community Fund.

    Expenses $25,000 · Grants $25,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Matthew Keipper

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Thayer V Mullins

    1st Vice Pres.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Matthew Monfredini

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jose Neko Vela

    VP/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • TJ Michaelson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Wall

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joseph G Moore Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Darby

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jason Martial

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Greg Vlahos

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John M Welsh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stephen Girlich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeff Hill

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Ryan Miller

    Asst Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

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
    $3,577,997
    Expenses
    $2,354,428
    Contributions
    $3,016,253
    Grants paid
    $1,055,950
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,943,551
    Expenses
    $1,927,454
    Contributions
    $1,826,615
    Grants paid
    $995,973
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,610,974
    Expenses
    $2,501,885
    Contributions
    $2,151,267
    Grants paid
    $972,592

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
    $2,914,494
    Expenses
    $2,444,750
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,097,771

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,416,792
    Expenses
    $1,650,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,391,317

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,057,825
    Expenses
    $1,543,441
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,328,496

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,038,554
    Expenses
    $2,098,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,552,171

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,918,623
    Expenses
    $2,048,181
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,518,235

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,437,013
    Expenses
    $1,930,079
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,049,435

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,919,172
    Expenses
    $1,926,887
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,557,964

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,842,900
    Expenses
    $1,805,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,016,346

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,882,442
    Expenses
    $1,588,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,710,813

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,627,768
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,219,720

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $805 raised

    2022 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $514 to charity

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $835 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $536 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.