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Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

International$6.5MSocial Science$4.5MFood & Nutrition$3.6MEducation$1.9MEnvironment$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.2MHuman Services$1.0MArts & Culture$645kPhilanthropy$477kOther$1.7M
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $781k
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.3M
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES$2,000,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC$1,235,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$400,000
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER$333,333
URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE$333,000
CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS$200,000
ADVOCATES FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE$160,000
ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL & SCHOOL$100,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$100,000
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES$68,500
WINDWARD FUND$52,000
CHICAGO CARES INC$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$50,000
INGENUITY$25,000
IMPACTASSETS INC$25,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG EISNER SCHOOLS: $100k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOOLS: $100k → 14%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS: $200k → 14%FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $250k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $250k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $5k → 14%UCAN: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 38 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
49

Total granted

$20M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+6%

Still filing today

82%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +4%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +193%
  • UG
    URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue -49%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +17%
  • OW
    Operation Walk Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -1% · 42% of their budget

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

04Your 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.

1
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
2
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
6
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
7
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
9
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
12
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hyatt Hotels Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Pregnancy Support ServicesSchool District FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsChristian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Jewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Public Library OperationsLocal Food System Organizat…Immigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,485

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
42/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $5,000,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERN…International Rescue Committee INC — $500,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee …THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $400,000 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL A…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC — $400,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAV…+6 more — $197,500 · InternationalTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $4,389,600 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE I…+1 more — $80,000 · Social ScienceURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC — $1,907,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN GROWERS COL…Chicago Food Policy Action Council — $629,000 · Food & NutritionChicago Food Poli…ADVOCATES FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE NFP — $568,000 · Food & NutritionADVOCATES FOR URB…GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $250,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO F…GROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC — $200,000 · Food & NutritionGROW GREATER ENGL…+1 more — $50,000 · Food & NutritionUniversity of Chicago — $1,156,000 · EducationUniversit…BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL — $300,000 · EducationBERNARD Z…EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $140,000 · EducationEDUCATORS…EDWARD G IRVIN FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $75,000 · Education+6 more — $75,000 · EducationASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — $1,255,500 · EnvironmentRARE — $200,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND — $52,000 · EnvironmentMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $1,000,333 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO CARES INC — $150,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PHP — $75,000 · Community ImprovementA Better Chicago — $505,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS — $200,000 · Human ServicesYoung Eisner Scholars — $200,000 · Human ServicesFIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Human Services+2 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $180,000 · OtherPLANNED PAREN…PROJECT ISAIAH LLC — $100,000 · OtherKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $150,000 · OtherKenneth C Gri…INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO — $125,000 · OtherMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $115,000 · OtherGroundswell Fund — $200,000 · OtherGroundswell F…HYATT HOTELS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY — $175,000 · OtherLINCOLN PARK …CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherOperation Walk Chicago — $250,000 · OtherOperation Wal…SKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $150,000 · OtherSKILLS FOR CH…+49 more — $1,162,456 · Other+49 more
International$6,497,500Social Science$4,469,600Food & Nutrition$3,604,000Education$1,946,000Environment$1,507,500Community Improvement$1,225,333Human Services$1,045,000Other$2,807,456

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $5,000,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $4,389,600 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC — $1,907,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — $1,255,500 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $1,156,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $1,000,333 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetChicago Food Policy Action Council — $629,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetADVOCATES FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE NFP — $568,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetA Better Chicago — $505,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $400,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC — $400,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL — $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Walk Chicago — $250,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetGroundswell Fund — $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC — $200,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetRARE — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars — $200,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY — $175,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC — $150,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $150,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO — $125,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $115,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEDWARD G IRVIN FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHYATT HOTELS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR FARM CHICAGO — $77,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PHP — $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $52,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWOODLAWN FOOD SECURITY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYAN ART RESOURCES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $45,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …The Pritzker Pucker F…Field Foundation of I…Jewish Federation of …ForefrontPolk Bros Foundation …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Robert R McCormick Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Arie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Metropo…
The Chicago Community TrustIL35.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Forefront · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago 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 Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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