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The Gutman Family Foundation at a glance

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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
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$65k
Largest
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0161% 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
02FY2021 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $211,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $245,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k16 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUND CHICAGO$65,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$55,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$20,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$10,000
CHARLES SCHWAB MEMORIAL FUND$7,500
ADL$5,000
MAKE A BETTER PLACE$5,000
HIGHLAND PARK/PARK DISTRICT$5,000
CHICAGO CARES$5,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND CHICAGO$5,000
RAVINIA$4,000
BLYTHEDALE$2,500
CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FUND$2,500
LYME PROJECT$2,500
02Its field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $70,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CH…LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10,000 · OtherLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISCHARLES SCHWAB MEMORIAL FUND: $7,500 · OtherCHARLES SCHWAB MEMORIAL FUNDMAKE A BETTER PLACE: $5,000 · OtherMAKE A BETTER PLACEHIGHLAND PARK/PARK DISTRICT: $5,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK/PARK DISTRICTADL: $5,000 · OtherADLRAVINIA: $4,000 · OtherRAVINIACHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FUND: $2,500 · OtherLYME PROJECT: $2,500 · OtherBLYTHEDALE: $2,500 · Other+3 more: $1,750 · OtherThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $55,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust M…Northwestern University: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthweste…CHICAGO CARES INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,500 · HealthLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $1,750 · HealthANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Animals
Philanthropy$70,000Other$55,750Arts & Culture$55,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Community Improvement$5,000Health$4,250Animals$1,500

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 budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗

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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