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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 1131013

GuideStone Funds

fund voting report

Vote records reported
58,536year to 30 June 2026
Against management
7.5%3,965 of 52,902 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
90.2%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
47.5%for, of for + against + abstain
91.4% for6.4% against2.2% other7.5% against management53,357 votes

foragainstabstain, withhold or otheramber tick: the portion cast against management

GuideStone Funds reported 58,536 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 7.5% of its votes as cast against management (3,965 of 52,902), 1.3 percentage points above the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 11.3%. The two figures differ when the votes against management fall on larger or smaller holdings than the rest.

On pay and on shareholder proposals: it voted for 90.2% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 47.5% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (42.6% of 202), OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES (32.7% of 566) and SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (27.6% of 170).

It reported 382.4 million shares out on loan at record dates, 2.01% of the shares it held or had lent across the meetings it reported. Shares on loan are not voted.

Compared with other filers

Each rate is defined once, in the methodology. The median is taken over 1,241 fund registrants with at least 25 vote records in the season.

year to 30 June 2026This filerMedian fund registrantAll filers pooled
Against-management share7.5%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate90.2%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate47.5%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held2.01%0.00%3.12%
Largest families, year to 30 June 2026Against managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal support
Vanguard20.1%94.1%42.0%
BlackRock and iShares7.5%88.3%11.9%
Fidelity6.0%94.7%27.6%
Dimensional16.4%78.9%57.4%
State Street and SPDR16.9%77.1%50.4%

Of the 58,536 vote records in this filing, 5,307 carry something the form does not expect: a missing vote source or category, a record with no vote line, a meeting date that cannot be read, or a security identifier this site could not use. They are counted as filed. What is checked

Votes by category

Filers choose one or more categories for each vote, so a vote can appear in more than one row. Category names are printed as Form N-PX defines them.

Category (as the form names it)VotesForAgainstAgainst managementSplit
DIRECTOR ELECTIONS30,85328,8091,0326.1%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES2,6702,2602459.7%
AUDIT-RELATED3,8993,829681.4%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS4400.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES1731422827.6%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS3483093910.3%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE3,8243,5932316.8%
COMPENSATION4,1543,52962215.1%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE7,6906,9756829.3%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE43515927621.7%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE31616415226.6%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION2051663942.6%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES56635820832.7%
OTHER237151861.4%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202470,8918.1%88.8%47.5%
year to 30 June 202563,4036.9%91.1%41.8%
year to 30 June 202658,5367.5%90.2%47.5%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, GuideStone Funds voted against management on 116 of the 1,271 it marked either way (9.1%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 177 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are left out of both sides of that fraction.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 611 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, GuideStone Funds voted for 274 (44.8%). The 40 at the companies with the most reporting filers are listed. Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

CompanyMeetingProposal
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025European Security Program Censorship Risk Audit
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Risks of Censorship in Generative Artificial Intelligence
Amazon.com, Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting a report on charitable partnerships
Amazon.com, Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting a report on impact of climate commitments
NVIDIA Corporation24 Jun 2026Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting a report on faith-based community resource groups.
NVIDIA Corporation24 Jun 2026Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the replacement of supermajority voting...
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a viewpoint diversity risk report
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a report on AI data usage oversight
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a report on water usage and AI development
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding equal shareholder voting
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent.
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on inclusion ROI audit.
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on report on online sexual exploitation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Independent board chairman
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Sustainability ROI report
Mastercard Incorporated16 Jun 2026Consideration of a stockholder proposal regarding shareholder right to act by written consent
Eli Lilly and Company4 May 2026Shareholder proposal to adopt a policy and amend the bylaws to require an independent board chair.
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Proposal 4 - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent,"
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Report on Politicized Brand Misalignment,"
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "ESG ROI Report,"
The Home Depot, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Report on Packaging Policies for Plastics
The Home Depot, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Report on Discrimination in Charitable Support
Bank of America Corporation4 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair
The Procter & Gamble Company14 Oct 2025Shareholder Proposal Requesting Additional Reporting on Plastic Packaging
Cisco Systems, Inc.16 Dec 2025Stockholder Proposal - Approval to request the Board to conduct an evaluation and issue a report assessing...
The Walt Disney Company18 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, requesting an independent review and report on...
Costco Wholesale Corporation15 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal regarding greenwashing risk audit.
PEPSICO, INC.6 May 2026Shareholder Proposal - Report on Human Rights Oversight.
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025A shareholder proposal to seek shareholder approval before adopting an amendment to the bylaws pursuant to...
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025Declassify the Board of Directors
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025A shareholder proposal requesting a child labor audit.
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.13 May 2026Stockholder proposal requesting changes to the stockholder right to call a special meeting.
McDonald's Corporation20 May 2026Advisory Vote on Shareholders' Right to Act by Written Consent.
Verizon Communications Inc.21 May 2026Risks of non-fiduciary executive compensation metrics
GE VERNOVA INC.20 May 2026Stockholder proposal requesting report assessing sustainability goals on the basis of net-present-value...
QUALCOMM Incorporated17 Mar 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Meeting."
International Business Machines Corporation28 Apr 2026Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Right to Act by Written Consent
International Business Machines Corporation28 Apr 2026Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Report on Al Bias
CATERPILLAR INC.10 Jun 2026Shareholder Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent

Shares on loan

GuideStone Funds reported 382.4 million shares on loan at record dates against 18.63 billion shares voted: 2.01% of the two together. Median fund registrant: 0.00%. Shares lent out at the record date cannot be voted by the lender, which is why Form N-PX asks for the figure. More on lending and votes.

Fund series in this filing

14 series reported votes. A vote record can list several series. Series with 500 or more vote records have their own page.

SeriesVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal support
Value Equity Index Fund9,5596.2%92.2%52.7%
International Equity Index Fund9,4935.2%not reported24.8%
Small Cap Equity Fund7,13410.5%92.2%56.0%
Equity Index Fund6,3756.5%91.2%52.1%
Emerging Markets Equity Fund6,13010.0%100.0%40.9%
International Equity Fund4,9924.4%85.7%17.3%
Growth Equity Index Fund3,85011.9%85.6%53.6%
Defensive Market Strategies Fund3,0435.0%87.9%36.3%
Growth Equity Fund2,18515.2%81.5%52.8%
Value Equity Fund2,0246.3%90.2%42.6%
Strategic Alternatives Fund1,9067.5%90.8%44.6%
Global Real Estate Securities Fund1,7775.5%90.3%not reported
Impact Equity Fund580.0%not reportednot reported
Global Bond Fund1090.0%not reportednot reported

The filings

These figures are read from the filer's own Form N-PX. If a vote on this page looks wrong, the filing is the record: a dispute about a filed vote is a matter for the filer, and an error in how this site read the filing is a matter for corrections.

Questions

How did GuideStone Funds vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 GuideStone Funds reported 2,505 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 2,260 were for (90.2%), 245 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 116 of the 1,271 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 177 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does GuideStone Funds vote against management?

7.5% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 3,965 of the 52,902 votes it marked as for or against management. Form N-PX asks each filer to state, vote by vote, whether the vote was for or against management's recommendation; this figure counts those marks.

Did GuideStone Funds support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 334 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 76 of them (22.8%). Across every category it voted for 47.5% of security-holder proposals. Filers choose the category for each vote, so the same proposal can sit in different categories in different filings.

Is this the result of the meetings?

No. Form N-PX shows how this filer voted the shares it held. It does not show how other shareholders voted or whether a proposal was approved. Companies report certified results separately, on Form 8-K.

Where does the data come from?

From the Form N-PX filings of this filer on the SEC's EDGAR system, read as filed. The SEC does not verify the contents. Amended filings (N-PX/A) replace the filings they amend. Data on this page runs through 23 Sep 2026.

Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings by GuideStone Funds (filer no. 1131013), read as filed and not verified by the SEC. Amended filings replace the filings they amend. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026; page built 26 Sep 2026.