Linda Pritzker Net Worth

Linda Pritzker has an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Linda Pritzker profile (figures as of October 20, 2026). That is up from $1.9 billion in 2019.

Linda Pritzker, also known as Lama Tsomo, is an American lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, plus an author and philanthropist. She is part of the Pritzker family, which is tied to Hyatt and other major businesses. After working as a psychotherapist for several years, she turned toward Tibetan Buddhism. In 1995, she started studying with Tulku Sangak Rinpoche. Later, she became fluent in Tibetan and built her public work around teaching and retreat programs.

Her wealth comes from family holdings connected to hotels and investments, while her public career centers on Buddhist teaching. Forbes says she was worth $2.2 billion as of October 20, 2026. Pritzker now teaches under the name Lama Tsomo and helps lead the Namchak Foundation and Namchak Retreat Ranch in Missoula, Montana. She also wrote a guide to Tibetan Buddhist practice for Western readers, with an introductory letter from H.H. Dalai Lama.

How Linda Pritzker built her public career

Pritzker is known publicly less for running family companies and more for her work as a teacher in Tibetan Buddhism. Forbes notes that she devotes herself to that path rather than to the family enterprises. In 2005, she was ordained as a lama by Tulku Sangak Rinpoche. Forbes also says she was one of the first American women ordained as a Lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, which helped define her public role.

Her main platform is the Namchak Foundation and the Namchak Retreat Ranch in Montana, where her work includes in-person retreats, online courses, and guided meditations for beginners and advanced students. Forbes says she is building a spiritual retreat center in Montana focused on Tibetan Buddhist practice, with annual coastal retreats and online courses offered in the meantime. Her books expanded that reach, including a Western guide to meditation and a 2016 award-winning title.

Where her fortune comes from

The money side of Pritzker's story comes from family wealth linked to hotels and investments. Forbes places her in the service industry and ties the family's fortune to Hyatt, the hotel business built by the Pritzkers. Forbes also points to another major source of family wealth through Marmon Holdings. Her father Robert Pritzker and his brother Jay Pritzker built up Marmon, then sold it to Berkshire Hathaway in 2008.

Forbes valued Linda Pritzker at $1.9 billion in 2019. After that, the estimate was $2 billion from 2020 through 2025, then moved to $2.2 billion in 2026. Forbes' real-time tracker also showed $2.2 billion in October 2026. The pattern suggests a fortune that stayed fairly steady for years, with the wealth base still tied to the family's long-established hotel and investment assets rather than to a new operating business she built herself.