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The Pritzker Pucker Family 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.

$10.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
96
Grants FY2024
84
Organizations funded FY2023
39%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,550,000
Organizations funded a year
72 to 96
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$60M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 39% of the organizations The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving90$7.5M43%
FY202384$8.3M39%
FY202296$6.1M55%
FY202172$5.3M47%
FY202072$6.6Mn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$14MArts & Culture$7.6MPhilanthropy$5.3MHealth$3.6MYouth Development$2.7MInternational$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.6MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Colorado Foundation$2,580,30040%
Chicago Children's Museum$2,300,000514%
The Commonwealth School Inc$1,625,00054%
Sundance Institute$1,512,50052%
Northwestern University$1,250,00050%
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)$882,00048%
Chicago Community Foundation$850,0002n/a
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$802,50041%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc$725,00021%
Planned Parenthood of Illinois$716,66711%
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All grantees of The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Colorado Foundation$2,580,30040%
Chicago Children's Museum$2,300,000514%
The Commonwealth School Inc$1,625,00054%
Sundance Institute$1,512,50052%
Northwestern University$1,250,00050%
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)$882,00048%
Chicago Community Foundation$850,0002n/a
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$802,50041%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc$725,00021%
Planned Parenthood of Illinois$716,66711%
The Marshall Project Inc$510,00041%
Women's Foundation of Massachusetts Inc$500,000315%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc$425,00051%
Solomon Schechter Day School Inc$400,0003n/a
American Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc$400,00014%
Metropolitan Family Services$394,33340%
United States Artists Inc$390,00052%
Tectonic Theater Project Inc$375,000512%
New York University$365,00030%
Groundswell Fund$333,33421%
Way to Rise$333,33421%
The Red Sox Foundation Inc$322,00042%
University of Chicago$315,26950%
Bright Star Community Outreach Corp$300,00033%
Inner-City Muslim Action Network$300,00031%
Newroot Learning Institute F/K/A Umoja Student Development Corp$300,00035%
After School Matters Inc$275,00050%
Lincoln Park Conservancy$265,00026%
Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc$255,00026%
Keshet$252,00051%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$250,68050%
Goodnation Foundation Inc$250,00013%
Garfield Park Rite to Wellness$250,000123%
New Life Centers of Chicagoland$230,00040%
Pioneer Works Art Foundation$225,00031%
Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation$203,19231%
Youth Guidance$200,00040%
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School$200,00031%
Cure Violence Global$200,00015%
Urban Juncture Foundation$185,00034%
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago$165,00020%
National Theatre in America Inc$157,50041%
Youth Advocate Programs Inc$150,00020%
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$150,00010%
Nehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House$150,00024%
Civic Consulting Alliance$150,00032%
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill$150,00030%
Rehabilitation Institute Inc$150,0002n/a
Camp Kesem National$135,00031%
The Ghetto Film School Inc$130,00042%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$128,00040%
Project&$125,000180%
Chicago Parks Foundation$113,00032%
Storycatchers$110,00052%
The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc$105,00040%
SkyArt NFP$100,00023%
Hyatt Hotels Foundation$100,00012%
NAMI Chicago$100,00013%
Rashi School Inc$100,0002n/a
MAAFA Redemption Project$100,00023%
Alternatives Inc$100,00021%
Artcouncil Inc Dba Artadia$82,50042%
Girls in the Game Nfp$80,00042%
Chicken & Egg Films Inc$75,00031%
Firebird Community Arts$75,00013%
Friends of the Children - Chicago$75,00013%
City of Chicago$66,5001n/a
Black Theatre Coalition Inc$65,000111%
Skills for Chicago$53,75030%
Impact for Equity$51,83311%
Global Livingston Institute$50,00014%
National Opinion Research Center$50,00010%
Lorenzo's House$50,000126%
Grassroots Collaborative$50,00022%
Allies for Community Business Inc$50,00011%
Project Unloaded Inc$50,00011%
Chicago Vibrant Neighborhoods Collective$50,00014%
Contextos Nfp$50,00012%
Fractured Atlas Inc$50,00010%
A Better Chicago$50,00020%
West Point Fellowship Inc Dba West Point School of Music$50,00012%
Rush University Medical Center$50,00010%
Live Free Chicago$50,00011%
Garfield Park Community Council$50,00019%
The Commercial Club Foundation$50,00010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$40,00040%
High Jump$40,00031%
Fulfillment Fund$37,50030%
Bright Promises Foundation$35,00032%
Center on Halsted$35,00020%
Boston Medical Center Corporation$30,00030%
Chicago Public Media Inc$30,00030%
Build Inc$30,00010%
Crossroads Fund Inc$30,00010%
Sterling Schools Foundation$30,00013%
The Tank Ltd$27,50012%
Equiticity$25,0001n/a
Chicago Symphony Orchestra$25,00010%
Center for Conflict Resolution$25,00013%
Chicago Blackhawks Foundation$25,00010%
Grow Greater Englewood Inc$25,00011%
Focus Fairies Mentoring$25,00013%
Free Spirit Media Nfp$20,00011%
Victory Gardens Theater$20,00021%
City Year Inc$20,00010%
Mha Labs$20,00017%
Invest for Kids Inc$20,00040%
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council$20,00010%
Friends of AN Pritzker School$18,885111%
Hyde Park Art Center$16,00011%
Brain Research Foundation$15,00010%
Tibet Fund Inc$15,00010%
World Business Chicago$15,00010%
Women Make Movies Inc$15,00010%
Chicago Media Project$15,00011%
Creating Hope International$15,00011%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$13,00020%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$12,00010%
Cool Hand Series Inc$10,0001n/a
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Writers Guild Foundation$10,00011%
Lookingglass Theatre Company$10,00010%
The Lambs Farm Inc$10,00020%
Sarah Siddons Society Inc$10,000114%
Lyric Opera of Chicago$10,00020%
Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago$10,00020%
Urban Initiatives Inc$10,00010%
Epilepsy Foundation of Northcentral Illinois Inc$10,0001n/a
League of Chicago Theatres$10,00011%
Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago$10,00011%
Gary Comer Youth Center Inc$10,00010%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$10,00010%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$9,61310%
Down Syndrome Innovations$9,13110%
Midwest Access Coalition$8,00012%
Concrete Cares Inc$7,5001n/a
The Barack Obama Foundation$7,50010%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$5,00010%
National Campaign to Stop Violence$5,00022%
Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Geffen Playhouse Inc$5,00010%
Dare2tri Paratriathlon Club$5,00010%
Mapscorps$5,00011%
Western Avenue Community Center$5,00011%
Trevor Project Inc$5,00010%
Chicago Humanities Festival$5,00010%
ChiArts Foundation$5,0001n/a
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc$5,00020%
Odc Network$5,00010%
Illinois Humanities Council Inc$5,00010%
Camp of Dreams$5,00018%
Search Inc$5,00010%
Afterimage Public Media$5,00011%
Arteeast Inc$5,00011%
Armenian Sisters Academy$5,0001n/a
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc$4,25210%
Forefront$4,15020%
Chicago Latino Theater Alliance$3,00010%
American Jewish Committee$2,50010%
Gift of Adoption Fund Inc$2,50010%
Safer Foundation$2,50010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$2,50010%
Fryeburg Academy$2,50010%
Dreams for Kids$2,50010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$2,50010%
Paws Chicago$2,00020%
Near North Montessori School$2,00020%
The Art Institute of Chicago$2,00010%
The Jewish Museum$1,80010%
Mulliganeers Inc$1,00010%
Move 2 Include Inc$1,0001n/a
Leo High School$1,0001n/a
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund Inc$1,00010%
Hephzibah Children's Association$1,00010%
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc$15010%
Chicago Sun-Times Media Inc$3010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 163 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $2,580,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Children's Museum: $2,300,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetThe Commonwealth School Inc: $1,625,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetSundance Institute: $1,512,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $882,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $802,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc: $725,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $716,667 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Marshall Project Inc: $510,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Massachusetts Inc: $500,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetChicago Theatre Group Inc: $425,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc: $400,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $394,333 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $390,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTectonic Theater Project Inc: $375,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetNew York University: $365,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $333,334 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWay to Rise: $333,334 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Red Sox Foundation Inc: $322,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $315,269 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBright Star Community Outreach Corp: $300,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetInner-City Muslim Action Network: $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNewroot Learning Institute F/K/A Umoja Student Development Corp: $300,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetAfter School Matters Inc: $275,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLincoln Park Conservancy: $265,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetReader Institute for Community Journalism Inc: $255,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetKeshet: $252,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $250,680 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGarfield Park Rite to Wellness: $250,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $230,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPioneer Works Art Foundation: $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetChildren First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation: $203,192 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetYouth Guidance: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School: $200,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCure Violence Global: $200,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetUrban Juncture Foundation: $185,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $165,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Theatre in America Inc: $157,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetYouth Advocate Programs Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House: $150,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCivic Consulting Alliance: $150,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetChildren's Home & Aid Society of Ill: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $135,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Ghetto Film School Inc: $130,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $128,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 163.

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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.

John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL66.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

Compare The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pritzker Pucker Family 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.

About The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation

How much does The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation give?
The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation reported 96 grants totaling $9,994,896 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 96 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Arts & Culture (18%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Colorado Foundation ($2.6M), Chicago Children's Museum ($2.3M), The Commonwealth School Inc ($1.6M).
Does The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Pritzker Pucker Family 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 The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation based?
The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 242 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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