Illinois · Private foundation
Pritzker 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.
- $34M
- Granted FY2023
- 59
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $31M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $141,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $10,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 55
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 10
- Total assets, FY2023
- $478M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Pritzker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 47 | $31M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $29M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $26M | 85% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $7.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $23,785,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $5,050,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $4,165,000 | 3 | 1% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $4,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Chicago Community Foundation | $3,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Navy Pier Inc | $2,595,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Choose Chicago Foundation | $2,500,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $2,400,000 | 2 | 2% |
| St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc | $2,050,000 | 2 | 6% |
| The Chicago Council on Global Affairs | $2,000,000 | 2 | 10% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pritzker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 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 · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Vivo Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Pritzker Foundation
- How much does Pritzker Foundation give?
- Pritzker Foundation reported 59 itemized grants totaling $30,698,333, out of $34,483,333 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Pritzker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (19%), Philanthropy (5%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Pritzker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: University of Chicago ($24M), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($5.0M), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($4.2M).
- Does Pritzker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pritzker 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 Pritzker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Pritzker Foundation based?
- Pritzker Foundation is based in IL.
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