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The Jay 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.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$65MArts & Culture$6.6MCivil Rights$2.2MHealth$1.2MPublic Benefit$675kPhilanthropy$530kRecreation & Sports$448kInternational$430kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $770k
  • $250k+5 grants · $9.5M
$182,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES$5,000,000
ST JOHNS COLLEGE$3,500,000
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$500,000
EMPOWER - THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION$250,000
COLLEGE OF MARIN FOUNDATION$250,000
SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$200,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$187,500
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION$182,500
THE HARPSWELL FOUNDATION$75,000
PROVIDENCE ST MEL SCHOOL$75,000
SIDE BY SIDE$50,000
FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO$25,000
CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO & MARIN FOOD BANK$20,000
THE SALVATION ARMY GOLDEN STATE DIVISION$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN CITY: $20k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
LA
AL
TX

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.

03Your 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$73M · 38 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
46

Total granted

$73M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+0%

Still filing today

87%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25M · revenue +244%
  • PS
    Providence St Mel School
    5× · 2019–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +11% · 36% of their budget
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • JA
    JAZZ AT THE LINCOLN CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M
  • THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -2%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +36%

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

04Your 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
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
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
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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6
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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10
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
Mills College

Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for California Community Colleges and the most unlike its peers is The Harpswell 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 backsteadyLocal History MuseumsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …United Way AffiliatesAffordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community College Foundatio…Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 Schools
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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%52%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,499

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.

04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
41/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JOHNS COLLEGE IN SANTA FE — $33,505,000 · OtherST JOHNS COLLEGE IN SANTA FEProvidence St Mel School — $4,361,800 · OtherProvidence St Mel School+53 more — $4,715,622 · Other+53 moreFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $25,000,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLE…SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $1,866,666 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC+10 more — $1,967,500 · Education+10 morePORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $1,075,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $750,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION — $442,900 · Arts & CultureARS NOVA THEATER I INC — $232,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC — $186,840 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $340,625 · Arts & CultureUniversity Network for International Training and Engagement for Human Rights — $2,150,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $25,000 · Civil RightsHYATT HOTELS FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $200,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston — $60,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $500,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $20,000 · Crime & LegalNorthwestern University — $447,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$42,582,422Education$28,834,166Arts & Culture$3,227,365Civil Rights$2,175,000Philanthropy$530,000Crime & Legal$520,000Recreation & Sports$447,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $25,000,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetProvidence St Mel School — $4,361,800 over 5y, 36% of budgetUniversity Network for International Training and Engagement for Human Rights — $2,150,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $1,866,666 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $1,075,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $750,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION — $547,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $500,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwestern University — $447,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION — $442,900 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF MARIN FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetEMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHYATT HOTELS FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetARS NOVA THEATER I INC — $232,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC — $186,840 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE HARPSWELL FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetStern Grove Festival Association — $107,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY — $105,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHIAS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBowdoin College — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSide By Side — $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Florence — $55,625 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetKQED INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $50,040 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation — $32,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER TRUCKERS DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…McNabb FoundationLeonard & Beryl Buck …Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…The James Irvine Foun…The Ayco Charitable F…The Andrew W Mellon F…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Swig Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA26× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Swig 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 The Jay Pritzker 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • St John's College — 2% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Jay Pritzker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Jay 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 89 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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