Daniel and his wife Karen are trustees of the Jay Pritzker Foundation, a
philanthropic fund that created the Pritzker Challenge at Tufts with gifts of $10 million. 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. He purchased
Jerry Garcia's
"Wolf" guitar for $790,000 in 2002. 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 After many years, he directed a film about jazz pioneer
Buddy Bolden which was released to theaters in May 2019. Originally titled
Bolden! before being renamed to just
Bolden, he funded the project from first draft to theatrical release because he felt the life of Buddy Bolden "was American history and tragedy of mythical proportion. From the outset I saw this as an opportunity to make an allegorical story about the soul of America." ==Personal life==