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The Gutman Family 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.

$245k
Granted FY2021
21
Itemized grants FY2021
20
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$212k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$65,000
States reached, FY2021
5
Total assets, FY2021
$86k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
61% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$78kArts & Culture$59kRecreation & Sports$25kHealth$18kEducation$10kHousing & Shelter$5kCommunity Improvement$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$70,00010%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$55,00010%
Northwestern University$20,00010%
Chicago Cares Inc$5,00010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$2,50010%
Loyola University Medical Center$1,75010%
Animal Rescue Foundation$1,50011%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.

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About The Gutman Family Foundation

How much does The Gutman Family Foundation give?
The Gutman Family Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $211,500, out of $245,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does The Gutman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (3%), Arts & Culture (2%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
Who are The Gutman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($70k), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($55k), Northwestern University ($20k).
Does The Gutman 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.
Where is The Gutman Family Foundation based?
The Gutman Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 20 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $431k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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