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Robert and Mayari Pritzker Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert and Mayari Pritzker Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$342k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$683kAnimals$285kHuman Services$229kEducation$172kHealth$123kYouth Development$118kArts & Culture$46kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $149k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERS ASIA$125,000
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$50,000
LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$42,000
GMTO CORP MAGELLAN PROJECT$25,000
COLONEL JAMES N PRITZKER LIBRARY OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIER$25,000
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC$15,000
RETIRED PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS COMMON GOOD FUND INC$12,000
KIDS GOLF FOUNDATION$10,000
MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION$10,000
PAWS CHICAGO$10,000
GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION$9,000
ST MICHAEL'S PARISH$5,000
CANINE THERAPY CORPS$2,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO$1,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $2k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $2k → 14%CHARLES TILLMAN CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%CHARLES TILLMAN CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
AR
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 22 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
10

Total granted

$1.9M
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+26%

Still filing today

73%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PA
    Partners Asia
    6× · 2020–2025 · $800k · revenue +53%
  • PC
    PAWS CHICAGO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $191k · revenue +210%
  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    3× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SR
    SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • BF
    BLACKHAWKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • MS
    MADISON STREET THEATER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chicago Zoological Society

To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.

Animals
2
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
3
Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…

Animals
4
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
7
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
8
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Chicago Sun Times Charity Trust
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10
The Richard H Driehaus Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Chicago Children's Museum

Chicago childrens museum is a place where families and caregivers with infants and children are encouraged to create, explore, and discover together through play. the museum features three vibrant floors of exhibits and activities that…

Arts & Culture
12
The Anti-Cruelty Society

Anti-Cruelty is a private, nonprofit organization which was established in 1899 and is chartered in Illinois. Anti-Cruelty builds a healthy and happy community where pets and people thrive together.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Colonel James N Pritzker Library of the Citizen Soldier. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Partners Asia: $800,000 · Arts & CulturePartners Asia+2 more: $36,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF ILLINOIS INC: $190,000 · OtherUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF …PRITZKER MILITARY LIBRARY: $120,000 · OtherPRITZKER MILITARY LIBRARYAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $60,000 · OtherAccess Living of Metropolitan Ch…SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB (RIC): $50,000 · OtherSHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB (RIC)Chicago Jazz Philharmonic: $30,000 · OtherGMTO CORP MAGELLAN PROJECT: $25,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $22,500 · OtherKIDS GOLF FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other+12 more: $68,600 · Other+12 morePAWS CHICAGO: $191,200 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGOLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $133,300 · AnimalsLINCOLN PARK ZOOLO…+4 more: $8,000 · AnimalsIllinois Institute of Technology: $80,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 · EducationChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $68,000 · PhilanthropyGIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $59,000 · Recreation & SportsRETIRED PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS COMMON GOOD FUND INC: $12,000 · HealthCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $4,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado: $1,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$836,000Other$586,100Animals$332,500Education$117,000Philanthropy$68,000Recreation & Sports$59,000Health$27,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPartners Asia: $800,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $191,200 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $133,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $68,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $59,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Jazz Philharmonic: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCHARLES TILLMAN CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRETIRED PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS COMMON GOOD FUND INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJARED ALLENS HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALIVE Rescue NFP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilder World Trust NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Northwestern Memorial…Gaylord and Dorothy D…AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …
Northwestern Memorial HealthCareIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert and Mayari Pritzker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Mayari Pritzker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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