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· Private foundation
THE GUTENSTEIN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$280k
Granted FY2024
14
Grants
8
Communities
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2024
—
2025
programming
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $277k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- WINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$35,000
- A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION$30,000
- GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY$25,000
- IVY TECH FOUNDATION$25,000
- GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA$25,000
- THE CARING PLACE INC$25,000
- HEBREW INSTITUTE OF RIVERDALE$25,000
- HAROLD HAL KELLEY RESPITE FOUNDATION$25,000
- BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$21,871
- PORTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
- CLIMATE CENTRAL INC$15,000
- NEW YORK CARES$10,000
- CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$3,000
- MRBUBBLEZ INC$500
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 13%. 54% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of THE GUTENSTEIN HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
THE GUTENSTEIN HERITAGE FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your field
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.
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Illinois College
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher learning in the liberal arts.
Education
2
Columbia College
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Education
3
The Common Application Inc
The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.
Education
4
Greensboro College
An academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values.
Education
5
American Culinary Federation Education
To provide for education, scholarships and other charitable purposes related to the culinary profession
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6
Augustana College
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Education
7
California College of the Arts
To educate students of diverse backgrounds in areas of fine arts, architecture, design, & writing.
Education
8
Iowa College Foundation
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9
Central Indiana Corporate
The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…
Community Improvement
10
Cicp Foundation Inc
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
Community Improvement
11
Goldey-Beacom College
To confer the associate, baccalaureate and graduate degrees on qualified students.
Education
12
Hollins University Corporation
Operation of a private, non-profit university
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Culinary Institute of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$85,500Education$49,871Health$30,000Human Services$25,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Science & Tech$15,000
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 WINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds HAROLD HAL KELLEY RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds PORTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CARES ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
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.
Robert and Ellen Gutenstein FamilyFL18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Robert and Ellen Gutenstein Family · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation THE GUTENSTEIN HERITAGE 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 510186405 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Gutenstein Heritage Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Gutenstein Heritage Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines