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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.

$280k
Granted FY2018
34
Itemized grants FY2018
31
Organizations funded FY2018
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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

24
’18
0
’19
8
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2018
$256k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2018
$81,000
States reached, FY2018
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Philanthropy$4.8MHealth$215kEducation$124kHousing & Shelter$31kArts & Culture$17kEnvironment$15kFood & Nutrition$15kInternational$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$167,0002n/a
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$46,00020%
Rosie's Place Inc$20,00020%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$15,00020%
Pine Street Inn Inc$10,00010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$10,00010%
Reach Inc$7,00010%
Decordova and Dana Museum & Park$5,50010%
Trustees of Boston University$5,00010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$5,00010%
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Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Guttag Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDecordova and Dana Museum & Park: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugepoint Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Folk Art Museum: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Women & Enterprise Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLexington Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Puerto Rico Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Belmont Golf Scholarship Fund Inc: $550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLexington Symphony Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncMA14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Guttag Family Foundation

How much does Guttag Family Foundation give?
Guttag Family Foundation reported 34 itemized grants totaling $256,006, out of $279,503 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does Guttag Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (87%), Health (4%), Education (2%).
Who are Guttag Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($167k), William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc ($46k), Rosie's Place Inc ($20k).
Does Guttag Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Guttag Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Guttag Family Foundation based?
Guttag Family Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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