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Pritzker Military 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $300,000 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER | $200,000 |
| THE NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC | $200,000 |
| NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $175,000 |
| FORT CAMPBELL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR | $150,000 |
| NORWICH UNIVERSITY | $129,190 |
| THE UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THE WORLD WARS | $100,000 |
| US NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PENFED FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| AIRBORNE & SPECIAL OPERATIONS MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $399k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +67%
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +91%
- NUNorwich University6× · 2018–2024 · $944k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- UFUS Fnd Commemoration of World Warsone grant, 2019 · $500k
- BMBastogne Memorial Fundone grant, 2019 · $250k
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS AREA 26 MILITARY SCHOOLS & JROTCone grant, 2020 · $152k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…
The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.
Stimulate and advance the study of military history, especially that of the united states of america and to diffuse knowledge thereof by publications, displays and otherwise.
Memorializes the history of our nation's highest military award for valor, from the first medals in 1863 to the present, and educates the next generation of americans about the six character traits associated with the gallantry of medal…
To honor through education and historic preservation the people who have served and are servicing the naval and maritime traditions of our nation.
The navy memorial mission is to honor, recognize and celebrate the men and women of the sea services and the important contributions made by them while serving in the united states navy, marine corps, coast guard and merchant marine. the…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Cultural Mile Association. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
136 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. 136 of the 207 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Army Historical Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds Lawfare Institute ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABLE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds National History Day Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT CAMPBELL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS RANK ↗
- Who funds THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds MILITARY HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Robert R McCormick Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund · Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Mark E Bryant Charitable Trust · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · Veterans United 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Pritzker Military 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.
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
- National History Day Inc — 13% of income from government
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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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