GuideStar has recognized The Armory Foundation with its Platinum Seal of Transparency.

With more than 2.7 million organizations, GuideStar is the largest searchable database of nonprofits and became the first in 1996.

Seals of Transparency indicate that a nonprofit organization has committed to transparency by providing updated, accurate, and insightful reports to the GuideStar database. The Armory Foundation is proud to earn the highest level of recognition: the Platinum Seal. To receive the Platinum Seal, organizations must submit:

• Strategic plan and goal highlights

• Metrics that demonstrate organization progress and results

• Financial reports

• Program information

• Organization mission and contact details

• Donation information

• Leadership information

• and more.

From guidestar.org:

About Candid

Every year, millions of nonprofits spend trillions of dollars around the world. Candid finds out where that money comes from, where it goes, and why it matters. Through research, collaboration, and training, Candid connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to do it. Candid’s data tools on nonprofits, foundations, and grants are the most comprehensive in the world. Foundation Center and GuideStar joined forces to become Candid, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Find out more at candid.org and on Twitter @CandidDotOrg.

About Foundation Center

Foundation Center was established in 1956, in the wake of McCarthy era hearings on foundation activity, as a public information service on philanthropy. Foundation Center began by gathering documents on 7,000 American foundations for public inspection and publishing annual print directories starting in 1960. The mission evolved to encompass strengthening the social sector by advancing knowledge about philanthropy not only in the United States, but around the world. With information on more than 13 million grants and 155,000 grantmakers, Foundation Center maintains the world’s largest database on global grantmaking. Foundation Center information and services aids nonprofits in increasing organizational capacity and raising the funds to fulfill their missions, while enabling foundations to collaborate more effectively and allocate resources more efficiently.

About GuideStar

Founded in 1994, GuideStar has helped drive the nonprofit transparency revolution. GuideStar released the first-ever searchable electronic database of nonprofits in 1996. Over the years, GuideStar expanded the database to include all tax-exempt organizations registered with IRS; the database currently comprises profiles of 2.7 million organizations. Populated with data from the IRS, nonprofits, and partners, these profiles are available through the GuideStar website and more than 200 other websites and applications, including Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Fidelity Charitable. In 2018, more than 10 million people used GuideStar data to make decisions about nonprofits and the work they do.

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