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The Gutenstein Heritage Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $201k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Temple Israel of Valparaiso | $50,600 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana | $50,000 |
| Hilltop Neighborhood House | $50,000 |
| MAAC Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| The Caring Place Inc | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,044 |
| Golden Corner Food Pantry | $31,500 |
| Global Camps Africa | $25,000 |
| Respite House | $25,000 |
| Ivy Tech Foundation | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,000 |
| RBC Ministries DBA Our Daily Bread Ministries | $15,000 |
| Climate Central Inc | $15,000 |
| Nathan B Stubblefield Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
| Culinary Institute of America | $3,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% 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.
Recipient 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k 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
- GCGOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY2× · 2024–2025 · $57k · revenue +47%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +75%
- CCCLIMATE CENTRAL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- WAWINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +5% · 28% of their budget
- ASA SILVER LINING FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +33%
- HHHarold Hal Kelly Respite House Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Furthering economic development and education through training unemployed and underemployed individuals for careers in the manufacturing sector.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Winnebago Alumni Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 THE CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE MAAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds Harold Hal Kelly Respite House Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds PORTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CARES INC ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE NATHAN B STUBBLEFIELD FOUNDATION 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: Robert and Ellen Gutenstein Family Foundation Inc · John W Anderson Foundation · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In · Von Tobel Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 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.
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.
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