· Private foundation
Guttag Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of Guttag Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Guttag Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $280k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $256,006 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $279,503 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,497 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k27 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRINGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $81,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $28,500 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC | $21,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY | $18,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE INC | $10,000 |
| REACH | $7,000 |
| WGBH | $6,000 |
| DECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK AND MUSEUM | $5,500 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $5,000 |
| WBUR | $5,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC | $5,000 |
| MGH INSTITUTE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC2× · 2018–2020 · $46k · revenue +211%- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC2× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +71%
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC2× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $29k
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +111%
PINE STREET INN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The nber conducts unbiased, non-partisan economic research and communicates the findings of that research to academic researchers, policy-makers, and business professionals. (continued on schedule o)
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds REACH INC ↗
- Who funds DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELMONT GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Lexington Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Guttag Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 26% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 26% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 13% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.