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Pritzker Traubert 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.

$12M
Granted FY2020
193
Grants FY2020
19
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$5.8MEducation$3.2MArts & Culture$2.8MInternational$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.3MEnvironment$1.2MEmployment$1.1MOther$0
02FY2020 · 193 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 193 grants below total $10,739,369 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,480,863 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,741,494 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k112 grants · $227k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $617k
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $3.7M
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.2M
$5,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$297M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace$2,000,000
Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation$1,117,100
Harvard University President and Fellows of Harvard$1,000,000
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago$500,000
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago$400,000
New Venture Fund$400,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.$250,000
North Lawndale Employment Network$250,000
Stanford University$250,000
Skills For Chicagoland's Future$200,000
City Colleges of Chicago Foundation$200,000
Steppenwolf Theatre$200,000
PCC$200,000
Noble Network of Charter Schools$186,044
Noble Network of Charter Schools$181,655
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.3M · 50 repeat orgs$8.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 97 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
78

Total granted

$7.3M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+43%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

  • NN
    NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
    2× · 2017–2020 · $1.7M · revenue +47%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +244%
  • SF
    SKILLS FOR CHICAGO
    2× · 2017–2020 · $760k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $997k · revenue +28%
  • WC
    WBEZ Chicago Public Radio
    one grant, 2017 · $401k
  • AA
    ASPEN ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -49%

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
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
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
Boston Architectural College

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

—
4
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
5
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
6
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
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
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
9
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
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
12
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Onechicagofund and the most unlike its peers is Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation. 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 backsteadyUnited Way AffiliatesCharter and Independent Sch…College Foundation SupportGovernment Accountability &…Classical Music OrchestrasCommunity Theater CompaniesPregnancy Support CentersFood Pantries and AssistanceCommunity Hospital SystemsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Girls Stem Education Progra…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Development CentersChristian Youth CampsLgbtqia+ Advocacy and Commu…Veteran Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsChildhood Cancer SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterSchool Parent-Teacher Organ…Early Childhood Care CentersPublic Library SupportUrban Agriculture EducationCommunity Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsWomen's Empowerment Organiz…Community Literacy TutoringEducation Equity InitiativesChristian Outreach Ministri…Local History MuseumsEnvironmental Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr22%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr22%54%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/173
the rest of the field
12%
8,890/72,186

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

163 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. 163 of the 231 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
158/163
Grantees still filing
123/163
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College — $5,825,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $1,733,321 · EducationNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLSUniversity of Chicago — $313,333 · Education+28 more — $1,153,451 · Education+28 moreNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,155,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONHarvard University President and Fellows of Harvard — $1,000,000 · OtherHarvard University President an…WBEZ Chicago Public Radio — $401,000 · OtherWBEZ Chicago Public RadioCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $210,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND — $620,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUNDAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $502,500 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION …ALLIANCECHICAGO — $375,000 · OtherALLIANCECHICAGO+111 more — $1,972,586 · Other+111 moreCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $2,000,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE E…+3 more — $102,500 · InternationalJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $997,160 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KEN…STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY — $250,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOL…MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC — $110,000 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN S…ASPEN ART MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+26 more — $378,650 · Arts & Culture+26 moreGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,117,100 · Community ImprovementTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC — $50,000 · Community Improvement+4 more — $47,000 · Community ImprovementSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $760,000 · EmploymentNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $251,000 · EmploymentPREA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Employment+1 more — $25,000 · EmploymentUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $1,000,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $32,520 · Philanthropy
Education$9,025,105Other$6,236,086International$2,102,500Arts & Culture$2,035,810Community Improvement$1,214,100Employment$1,136,000Philanthropy$1,032,520

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $5,825,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $2,000,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $1,733,321 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,155,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,117,100 over 1y, 27% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $997,160 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $760,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $620,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $502,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCECHICAGO — $375,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $313,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $251,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY — $250,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $210,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE — $201,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART — $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Resurrection Project — $160,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights — $155,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC — $116,451 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMarwen Foundation Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVictory Gardens Theater — $56,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy — $55,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $46,300 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago — $37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $31,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation — $27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONECHICAGOFUND — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $18,650 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

Lloyd a Fry FoundationJohn D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …Robert R McCormick Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…United Way of Metropo…The Joyce FoundationJewish Federation of …The Irving Harris Fou…Fulk Family Foundatio…
Lloyd a Fry FoundationIL56.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lloyd a Fry Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Joyce Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Irving Harris Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pritzker Traubert Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pritzker Traubert 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 231 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 2020, released 2020. 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 $120M 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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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