Illinois · Private foundation
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $66M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $5.2M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $6.5M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $5.3M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $3.0M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $2.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Strategic and International Studies | $5,000,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $4,389,600 | 5 | 1% |
| Urban Growers Collective Inc | $1,907,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Aspen Center for Environmental Studies | $1,255,500 | 5 | 9% |
| University of Chicago | $1,156,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Movement Strategy Center | $1,000,333 | 3 | 1% |
| Chicago Food Policy Action Council | $629,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Advocates for Urban Agriculture Nfp | $568,000 | 4 | 20% |
| A Better Chicago | $505,000 | 3 | 5% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($763k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation
- How much does Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation give?
- Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $5,258,583 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (28%), Social Science (19%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Center for Strategic and International Studies ($5.0M), The Aspen Institute Inc ($4.4M), Urban Growers Collective Inc ($1.9M).
- Does Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Margot & Thomas Pritzker 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation.
- Where is Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation based?
- Margot & Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation is based in IL.
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