Total Amount Given to Pro-Clinton Super PACs: $3,250,000
J.B. Pritzker runs a venture capital firm, and he and his wife lead the Pritzker Family Foundation, which focuses on early childhood development. (Full disclosure: Pritzker Group Venture Capital is an investor in Graphiq, the parent company of InsideGov.)
In 2008, J.B. Pritzker was a national co-chair for Clinton’s presidential campaign, breaking with his sister, Penny, who supported then-Sen. Barack Obama’s White House bid. Penny Pritzker was the national finance chair for Obama’s 2008 campaign and the national co-chair of Obama’s 2012 campaign, and is the current secretary of the Department of Commerce. J.B. and Penny’s father, Donald Pritzker, was a co-founder and president of the Hyatt hotel chain; the Pritzker family is one of the wealthiest in America, according to Forbes.
