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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
56
Grants FY2023
10
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$39MPhilanthropy$11MArts & Culture$8.2MHealth$7.4MFood & Nutrition$6.2MCommunity Improvement$4.5MInternational$3.7MScience & Tech$3.0MOther$0
02FY2023 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 56 grants below total $29,623,333 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $34,483,333 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,860,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $269k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+19 grants · $26M
$141,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$478M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University Of Chicago$10,000,000
Choose Chicago Foundation$2,500,000
Jewish United Fund$2,000,000
St. Andrew's School of Delaware, Inc.$2,000,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository$2,000,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository$2,000,000
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital Chicago$1,000,000
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago$800,000
Navy Pier, Inc.$500,000
Northwestern Memorial Foundation$500,000
Erikson Institute$500,000
P33$400,000
Jewish United Fund$400,000
Chicago Children's Museum$350,000
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation$333,333
02Your 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$67M · 48 repeat orgs$22M to everyone else

48 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
40

Total granted

$67M
$17M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+27%

Still filing today

77%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • University of Chicago
    3× · 2020–2023 · $24M · revenue +52%
  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    3× · 2020–2023 · $5.0M · revenue +28%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $4.2M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Chicago-Microfabrication Facility
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2.3M
  • TB
    THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -11%

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

03Your 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
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
2
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Matters 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Pantries and AssistanceJewish Community FederationsCharter and Independent Sch…United Way AffiliatesCommunity Arts CentersChildhood Cancer SupportChristian Outreach Ministri…Public Library SupportVeteran Support ServicesEducation Equity InitiativesPregnancy Support CentersLocal History MuseumsGovernment Accountability &…Community Theater CompaniesEnvironmental Advocacy and …Community Hospital SystemsCollege Foundation SupportPrivate Grantmaking Foundat…
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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr22%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr22%63%55yr+

The field is 18% 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 — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/80
the rest of the field
12%
8,890/72,279

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.

03the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 103 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
59/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Chicago — $23,785,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $4,000,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC — $2,050,000 · EducationNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $1,870,371 · Education+20 more — $7,271,666 · Education+20 moreUniversity of Chicago-Microfabrication Facility — $3,000,000 · OtherUniversity of Chicago-Microfa…P33 — $2,900,000 · OtherP33CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,250,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONNorthwestern Memorial Foundation — $2,000,000 · OtherNorthwestern Memorial Foundat…Greater Chicago Food Depository — $2,000,000 · OtherGreater Chicago Food Deposito…Ingenuity Inc Chicago Dba Creative Schools Fd — $1,000,000 · OtherTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $2,000,000 · OtherTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL…CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $1,100,000 · Other+38 more — $7,715,616 · Other+38 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $2,400,000 · PhilanthropyHYATT HOTELS FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $1,600,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $383,333 · PhilanthropyJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $275,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $25,000 · PhilanthropyAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $5,050,000 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $1,000,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $325,000 · Health+4 more — $210,000 · HealthNAVY PIER INC — $2,095,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museum — $1,252,500 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society — $410,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $400,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $333,333 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY — $260,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $1,378,200 · Arts & CultureCHOOSE CHICAGO FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC — $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $4,165,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$38,977,037Other$23,965,616Philanthropy$6,683,333Health$6,585,000Arts & Culture$6,129,033Community Improvement$4,500,000Food & Nutrition$4,165,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago — $23,785,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $5,050,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $4,165,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $4,000,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHOOSE CHICAGO FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $2,400,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNAVY PIER INC — $2,095,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC — $2,050,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHYATT HOTELS FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $2,000,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $1,870,371 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $1,600,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetChicago Children's Museum — $1,252,500 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetNational Louis University — $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetErikson Institute — $1,176,666 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $1,100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL — $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $650,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $600,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $420,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $410,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $400,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC — $400,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $383,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $383,333 over 3y, 21% of budgetEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS — $375,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $355,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGADS HILL CENTER — $350,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $325,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY — $260,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $250,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBowdoin College — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP — $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN — $215,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWabash College — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetREADER INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY JOURNALISM INC — $200,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetAMERICAN DOCUMENTARY INC — $194,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC — $159,200 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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…Polk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…John D and Catherine …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Circle of Service Fou…Lloyd a Fry FoundationVivo FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Fifth Third Chicagola…Jewish Federation of …The Ayco Charitable F…
The Chicago Community TrustIL29.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pritzker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pritzker 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 103 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $32M 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home