The Pritzker Challenge is designed to encourage members of the Tufts community to establish endowed or term scholarships for underprivileged minority students.
Pritzker was the founder, guitarist and songwriter for the Chicago band Sonia Dada.
Pritzker is ranked 353 in the 2020 list of "The 400 Richest Americans" by Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $2.4 billion.
In 2017, he donated it to a charity auction, where Brian Halligan placed the winning bid totaling $1.9M.
He keeps it at his private residence in Utica, New York[5][6] After many years, he directed a film about jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden which was released to theaters in May 2019.