Illinois · Private foundation
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
- 226
- Itemized grants FY2020
- 147
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 66%
- First-time grantees FY2020
- Itemized, FY2020
- $11M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2020
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 128 to 147
- FY2017 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 19
- Total assets, FY2020
- $297M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 66% of the organizations Pritzker Traubert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 147 | $11M | 66% |
| FY2017 | 128 | $6.0M | 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 FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | $2,000,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Noble Network of Charter Schools | $1,733,321 | 2 | 1% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | 2% |
| National Park Foundation | $1,155,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation | $1,117,100 | 1 | 27% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $997,160 | 1 | 0% |
| Skills for Chicago | $760,000 | 2 | 12% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $502,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Alliancechicago | $375,000 | 2 | 3% |
| University of Chicago | $363,333 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 167 grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pritzker Traubert Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Pritzker Traubert Foundation
- How much does Pritzker Traubert Foundation give?
- Pritzker Traubert Foundation reported 226 itemized grants totaling $11,443,369, out of $12,480,863 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 128 and 147 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
- What does Pritzker Traubert Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Science & Tech (3%), Education (1%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are Pritzker Traubert Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ($2.0M), Noble Network of Charter Schools ($1.7M), United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc ($1.5M).
- Does Pritzker Traubert Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pritzker Traubert 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 Traubert Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lloyd a Fry Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
- Where is Pritzker Traubert Foundation based?
- Pritzker Traubert Foundation is based in IL.
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