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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 FY2024still arriving
96
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $566k
  • $50k–250k42 grants · $3.8M
  • $250k+10 grants · $5.5M
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,550,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS$716,667
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$600,000
CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST$550,000
COMMUNITY BUILDERS - NEW HOPE COMMUNITY$500,000
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$500,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$350,000
TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT$265,000
READER INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY JOURNALISM INC$250,000
GARFIELD PARK RITE TO WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$220,000
SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL$200,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC$200,000
ROLE MODEL MOVEMENT INC - MY BLOCK MY HOOD MY CITY$200,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES$200,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $100k → 12%CAMP KESEM: $45k → 14%CONCRETE CARES: $8k → 13%MULLIGANEERS: $1k → 7%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $50k → 12%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $45k → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $45k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%FULFILLMENT FUND: $10k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $18k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $10k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $71k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-CHICAGO: $75k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS INC: $5k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS INC: $5k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $3k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $25k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $10k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $10k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID: $50k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID: $50k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $25k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $25k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $24k → 14%LORENZO'S HOUSE: $50k → 14%GARFIELD PARK RITE TO WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE: $250k → 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

ME
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
DE
KS
DC
GA
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 89 repeat orgs$7.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

89 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
103

Total granted

$26M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+22%

Still filing today

81%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +76%
  • CC
    Chicago Children's Museum
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +79%
  • TC
    THE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METRO
    one grant, 2022 · $525k
  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
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
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
2
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
3
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
4
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
5
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
6
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
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
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
9
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
12
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Humanities Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hyatt Hotels Foundation. 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

178 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 178 of the 242 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
175/178
Grantees still filing
117/178
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,805,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSIT…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $2,580,300 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONTHE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC: $1,625,000 · EducationTHE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC+17 more: $2,536,645 · Education+17 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF IL: $1,333,334 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILCOLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LAW: $1,000,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA SCHOOL OF LAWCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $850,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF METRO: $525,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY BUILDERS - NEW HOPE COMMUNITY: $500,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $510,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $716,667 · Other+111 more: $7,523,864 · Other+111 moreChicago Children's Museum: $2,300,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's …Sundance Institute: $1,512,500 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $802,500 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OU…CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $425,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GRO…United States Artists Inc: $390,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artis…Tectonic Theater Project Inc: $375,000 · Arts & CultureREADER INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY JOURNALISM INC: $255,000 · Arts & Culture+23 more: $1,178,500 · Arts & Culture+23 moreThe Chicago Community Trust: $875,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chica…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $725,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S F…Groundswell Fund: $333,334 · PhilanthropyGroundswe…THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $322,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RED S…Goodnation Foundation Inc: $250,000 · PhilanthropyGoodnatio…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $150,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $282,500 · Philanthropy+4 moreAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $400,000 · InternationalCURE VIOLENCE GLOBAL: $200,000 · International+5 more: $97,000 · InternationalNorthwestern University: $1,250,000 · Recreation & SportsLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY: $265,000 · Recreation & SportsCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $113,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $882,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $230,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $73,885 · Youth Development
Education$12,546,945Other$13,458,865Arts & Culture$7,238,500Philanthropy$3,587,834International$1,697,000Recreation & Sports$1,633,000Youth Development$1,485,885

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,805,000 over 5y, 0.0% of 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 budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $882,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $875,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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.

John D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Field Foundation of I…Circle of Service Fou…Robert R McCormick Fo…United Way of Metropo…The Joyce FoundationLloyd a Fry FoundationJewish Federation of …The Irving Harris Fou…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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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.

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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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