Guardian of the Faith Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900854023
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-T 2023, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Jeannette, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4125232307
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $244,563
- Expenses
- $228,180
- Assets
- $51,201
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REBECCA POLJAK (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
People named in this filing
- REBECCA POLJAK (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- MARY DICKEY (SECRETARY)
- ELENA LACOTURE (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and sceintific purposes, including for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501 (c)(3) of the internal revenue code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code. The charitable corporation shall be operated to raise funds for the religious purpose of the construction of a shrine and a basilica to the blessed virgin mary, guardian of the faith in cuenca, ecuador and for the support of the fundacion jardin del cajas, an organization that cares for the elderly and for endangered orphan and special needs children. The charity will also support efforts directed to aid the poor in the u.s. Especially the aged, endangered and special needs children and victims of drug addition.
What it reported doing in 2025
The program service that guardian of the faith participates in is the support of the fundacion jardin del cajas, which is an organization that cares for the elderly and orphans of cuenca, ecuador. Supporting this organization helps to ensure that the programs that they support, which includes but is not limited to casa hogar, feeding the homeless, and supporting and caring for unwed mothers and their children is accomplished.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has grown recently. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $228K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.