[3] In 1957, Jay founded Hyatt Hotel and, along with his brothers Robert Pritzker and Donald Pritzker diversified the Chicago-based family business into the Marmon Group building it into a portfolio of over 60 diversified industrial corporations and owned Braniff Airlines from 1983 to 1988.
[4] In 1972, Pritzker started his career working in the family business, Hyatt Hotels, where in 1984, he rose to become Managing Director and Divisional Vice President.
Soon after the resort's opening, Geolo Capital purchased a majority interest in the Joie de Vivre boutique hotel chain.
[14] In November 2018, Two Roads Hospitality closed on its sale to Hyatt Corporation for a reported price of $480 million.
The fund is a major supporter of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where the JPFF funded the construction of the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Building for Psychiatry and the Pritzker Center for Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.