Blog Post
New Milford, NJ - The Darren Drake Foundation (Darren Drake Foundation, Inc., an IRS registered 501(C)(3) non-profit charity) announced today the achievement of attaining the Guidestar Bronze Seal of Transparency. The Foundation is now published on the Guidestar website, along with indication of the Bronze Seal of Transparency, on a dedicated page viewable here: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/82-4924145. Jonathan Balkin, Chief Information Officer for the Darren Drake Foundation, comments, "Guidestar is the world's largest source of non-profit information, and provides us with global exposure as well as access to a wealth of resources to leverage as we build and grow the Darren Drake Foundation. We are proud of this milestone and would like to express our gratitude to Guidestar for the opportunity to be included in their incredible program."
From the Guidestar website (https://learn.guidestar.org/about-us):
Each year, millions of people use GuideStar information to make decisions about nonprofits and the work they do. Donors explore charities and issues they want to support. Nonprofit leaders benchmark their organizations against their peers. Funders research grantees. We strive to provide the highest-quality, most complete nonprofit information available.
GuideStar gathers, organizes, and distributes information about U.S nonprofits. It sounds simple, but in reality it’s an enormous undertaking. The nonprofit sector is huge and complex, as these numbers from our database show:
| 2.7M | 26M | 3.4M |
| total nonprofits | annual searches on GuideStar | nonprofit leaders |
GuideStar was a pioneer in using the Internet to share nonprofit information. (Fun fact: in the early days, GuideStar data was distributed on CD-ROM.) Today we are part of the backbone of the nonprofit sector. Yet we also continue to innovate, collaborating with other leadership organizations on issues such as the Overhead Myth and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
