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The Gutenstein Heritage Foundation at a glance

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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.

$443k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Human Services$120kYouth Development$82kAnimals$72kFood & Nutrition$57kEducation$56kHealth$52kHousing & Shelter$50kInternational$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $201k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Hilltop Neighborhood House: $50k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IN
NJ
VA
TN
SC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Gutenstein Heritage Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Gutenstein Heritage Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$263k · 6 repeat orgs$446k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$263k
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthScience & TechHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GC
    GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $57k · revenue +47%
  • IT
    IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +75%
  • CC
    CLIMATE CENTRAL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +228%

Funded once

  • WA
    WINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +5% · 28% of their budget
  • AS
    A SILVER LINING FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +33%
  • HI
    HEBREW INSTITUTE OF RIVERDALE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

—
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

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.

Education
5
New Century Careers

Furthering economic development and education through training unemployed and underemployed individuals for careers in the manufacturing sector.

Employment
6
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
8
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Illinois College

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…

Education
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
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Health Care Without Harm

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CARING PLACE INC: $70,000 · OtherTHE CARING PLACE INCTemple Israel of Valparaiso: $50,600 · OtherTemple Israel of ValparaisoWINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 · OtherWINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $32,044 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEBREW INSTITUTE OF RIVERDALE: $25,000 · OtherHEBREW INSTITUTE OF RIVERDALERespite House: $25,000 · OtherRespite HouseIndividual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCLIMATE CENTRAL INC: $30,000 · OtherCLIMATE CENTRAL INCHarold Hal Kelly Respite House Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherHarold Hal Kelly Respite House Foundation IncPORTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherRBC MINISTRIES: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $15,500 · OtherGOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: $56,500 · Human ServicesGOLDEN CORNER FO…HILLTOP NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHILLTOP NEIGHBOR…IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOU…Baylor College of Medicine: $21,871 · EducationBaylor Colle…CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $6,000 · EducationCULINARY INS…THE MAAC FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsA SILVER LINING FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Health
Other$359,144Human Services$106,500Education$77,871Public Safety & Disaster$50,000Youth Development$50,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Health$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CARING PLACE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: $56,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetWINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetA SILVER LINING FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHarold Hal Kelly Respite House Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $21,871 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATHAN B STUBBLEFIELD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Robert and Ellen Gute…John W Anderson Found…Porter County Communi…Nisource Charitable F…Forszt Brothers Chari…Von Tobel Foundation …1st Source Bank Found…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Robert and Ellen Gutenstein Family Foundation IncFL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gutenstein Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gutenstein Heritage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Gutenstein Heritage Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Gutenstein Heritage Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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