Who We Are
For over a decade, the Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation has been investing in strengthening many of the unique institutions that define Los Angeles. The Foundation aims to enrich our community not just for the present, but for generations to come, with particular focus on medicine, higher education, the environment and the arts. In 2014, The Foundation launched Pritzker Foster Care Initiative to highlight its commitment to supporting transition age foster youth and the families that care for them.
Recent Grants
Our goal is to partner with grantees, providing not just financial support, but a range of services aimed to help organizations achieve their objectives and fulfill their missions. The grantees featured here reflect a sample of the institutions and programs that we see as making distinctive contributions in their respective fields.
Pritzker Foster Care Initiative
Foster Care Counts
Environment
Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
Education
UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
Creating a new collaborative hub at UCLA for research, prevention and intervention efforts, aimed to prevent children from entering the child welfare system and yield better outcomes for those already in it.
https://pritzkercenter.ucla.edu/Medicine
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
Pritzker Foster Care Initiative
Alliance for Children's Rights
Pritzker Foster Care Initiative
RAND Study on Improving Child Welfare Outcomes
Supporting the development of a quantitative model that can be used to simulate the impact of child welfare policy changes. The study helped validate that combining options that increase both prevention and treatment generates stronger effects than any single option and can improve the lives of thousands of children every year while saving billions of dollars. Click here for a short video on the findings and impact of the study.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1775-1.htmlPritzker Foster Care Initiative
John Burton Advocates for Youth
Medicine
Mattel Children's Hospital
Community
Hammer Museum
Funding programs to expand outreach to schools and families.
https://hammer.ucla.edu/Education
UCLA Centennial Campaign
Pritzker Foster Care Initiative
Peace 4 Kids
Environment
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Endowing the California Center for Sustainable Communities, chairs in Sustainability, interdisciplinary collaborative research programs and outreach to affect positive environmental policy.
http://www.ioes.ucla.edu/Pritzker Foster Care Initiative
Think of Us
Community
Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Research and Press
UCLA Newsroom
December 2020
Tribal Leader Clara Pratte Wins Pritzker Award for Young Environmental InnovatorsInside Philanthropy
June 2020
In Los Angeles, Big Donors and Public Schools Team up on Food InsecurityLos Angeles Daily News
March 2020
With Distance Learning Off to a Wobbly Start, LAUSD Calls Out for HelpThe Hollywood Reporter
March 2020
CAA’s Richard Lovett, Pritzker Family Foundation and Ballmer Group Launch Fund to Help LAUSD Students