Arts and Culture in Chicago

Recent Grants

Arts and Culture in Chicago

Number of Grants: 108

Adler Planetarium (Chicago, Illinois)
$375,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2009)

Aguijon Theater (Chicago, Illinois)
$24,000 in support of Voces Caribeñas Project to develop a show in Cartagena, Columbia, and showcase the work of three Spanish-language, Caribbean playwrights in Chicago. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Americans for the Arts (Washington, D.C.)
$60,000 support to include Chicago in an economic impact study of the nation's nonprofit arts industry. (2011)

Anima-Young Singers of Greater Chicago (Glen Ellyn, Illinois)
$50,000 to support a tour and cultural activities in Spain and Morocco. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Association of Midwest Museums (St. Louis, Missouri)
$25,000 in support of the annual conference to be held in Chicago in 2011. (2011)

Audience Architects (Chicago, Illinois)
$225,000 support for staff and to expand core programs (over three years). (2011)

Black Ensemble Theater (Chicago, Illinois)
$80,000 to support succession planning and technology upgrades (over two years). (2009)

Black Metropolis Research Consortium (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 to support start-up costs (over two years). (2009)

Cambodian Association of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 to support succession planning and to build a cash reserve. (2009)

Chicago Artists' Coalition (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of the inaugural Art Loop Open. (2010)

Chicago Botanic Garden (Glencoe, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2011)

Chicago Chamber Musicians (Chicago, Illinois)
$10,000 to support a Chicago premier of the multimedia production, "Strange News," depicting the lives of child soldiers in Africa. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Chicago Children's Choir (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2009)

Chicago Council on Science and Technology (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2011)

Chicago Council on Science and Technology (Chicago, Illinois)
$125,000 in support of start-up costs and general operations (over two years). (2009)

Chicago Cultural Center Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$190,000 to support the expansion of the Chicago Artists' Resource Website (over three years). (2010)

Chicago Cultural Center Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2010)

Chicago Human Rhythm Project (Chicago, Illinois)
$275,000 in support of the Collaborative Space for Sustainable Development (over four years). (2011)

Chicago Human Rhythm Project (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000 to support curriculum development and a performance tour in China. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Chicago Humanities Festival (Chicago, Illinois)
$45,000 in support of a collaboration with the Edinburgh-based Imaginate Festival. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Chicago Humanities Festival (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2009)

Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (Chicago, Illinois)
$30,000 in support of a reciprocal conductor and composer residency and exchange with Metropol Orkest in the Netherlands. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Chicago Moving Company (Chicago, Illinois)
$15,000 in support of a month-long dance residency in Mongolia. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Chicago Opera Theater (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2009)

Chicago Public Art Group (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of general operations and capacity building (over two years). (2010)

Chicago Public Media (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2011)

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to participate in the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad with an original production of a hip hop interpretation of Othello that will be featured at the Globe Theater's Globe to Globe Festival. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago, Illinois)
$375,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2009)

Chicago Sinfonietta (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2010)

Chicago Zoological Society Brookfield Zoo (Brookfield, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2011)

City Colleges of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations for WYCC-TV Channel 20 (over five years). (2010)

Columbia College Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in general support of the Sherwood Conservatory of Music (over two years). (2009)

Dance/USA (Washington, D.C.)
$20,000 in support of the annual conference to be held in Chicago in 2011. (2011)

DanceWorks Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to support two collaborations in Mexico City, one with E.Danza dance company to nurture emerging contemporary dancers in Mexico, and the other with the Carlos Chavez Youth Orchestra to adapt its Magical Movements production for a Mexican audience. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Deeply Rooted Productions (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 to support marketing and development plans (over two years). (2009)

DuPage Children's Museum (Naperville, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2010)

DuSable Museum of African American History (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2010)

EmcArts (New York, New York)
$22,000 in support of a day-long presentation and workshop for MacArthur Arts and Culture grantees. (2011)

Erie Neighborhood House (Chicago, Illinois)
$45,000 to fund a study tour that links Chicago's Mexican immigrants with communities in Guanajuato, Mexico. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

eta Creative Arts Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$62,000 to support technology upgrades. (2009)

Executive Service Corps of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of technical assistance to applicants of the Foundation's Working Capital Loan Fund for Arts and Culture (over three years). (2011)

Executive Service Corps of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 to support the Working Capital Loan Fund and to provide technical assistance to nonprofit organizations. (2010)

Executive Service Corps of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 to provide technical assistance for the Working Capital Loan Fund established in cooperation with ShoreBank (over two years). (2009)

Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2011)

Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Illinois)
$36,000 in support of the International Youth Delegates Program. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust (Oak Park, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2009)

Free Street Theater (Chicago, Illinois)
$25,000 to support the Cultural Embassies Project, in collaboration with the Makhampon Theatre Company in Thailand. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of public art projects and music education and performance opportunities for artists and youth from the Alliance, Chicago West Community Music Center, and two community-based organizations in Brazil focused on arts, community development, and environmental action by and for residents of low-income housing complexes in the Sao Paolo region. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Illinois)
$15,000 in support of the Belarus Free Theatre's presentation of "Being Harold Pinter." (2011)

Grantmakers in the Arts (Seattle, Washington)
$90,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2011)

Harris Theater for Music and Dance (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 to support the theater subsidy rental program (over four years). (2010)

House Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of twenty Lawndale youth traveling to the University of Veracruz in Mexico to study race relations and improve cross-cultural understanding. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000 in support of artistic collaborations with Nederlands Dans Theater and Batsheva Dance Company. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$30,000 in support of scholarships to the biennial conference, One State: Together in the Arts (over two years). (2009)

Illinois Humanities Council (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2009)

Innovation Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in support of Chicago Ideas Week. (2011)

International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to support a collaboration between its musicians, Chicago-based composer Marcos Balter, four emerging Brazilian composers, and selected Brazilian educational programs, to commission and present four new contemporary music compositions. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

International Music Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 in support of the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert series. (2009)

Jazz Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in support of the annual Chicago Jazz Festival (over two years). (2010)

Jazz Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$60,000 in support of programming for the 2010 Chicago Jazz Festival. (2009)

Joffrey Ballet of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$375,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2009)

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000 in support of Capacity Building: Midwest (over two years). (2009)

Kalapriya Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to support a marketing plan (over three years). (2009)

Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago (Glenview, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2010)

Korean American Resource & Cultural Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 in support of the development and expansion of the Culture Program (over three years). (2009)

Korean American Resource & Cultural Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000 to support an exchange between cultural artists in Chicago and South Korea. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Kuumba Lynx (Chicago, Illinois)
$46,000 to support strategic planning with a focus on fundraising and development (over two years). (2009)

Latinos Progresando (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000 to support strategic planning and implementation for Teatro Americano (over two years). (2010)

League of Chicago Theatres Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000 in support of general operations. (2009)

Links Hall (Chicago, Illinois)
$20,000 in support of "Arte no es fácil," a performance series that will present original multi-disciplinary art work that is produced as a result of 10 collaborations, each with one emerging visual or performance artist from Chicago and one from Havana, Cuba. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to support an exchange between Chicago New Communities Program leaders and community development leaders in Russia. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Lucky Plush Productions (Riverside, Illinois)
$45,000 to support collaborative contemporary dance and movement performances and workshops with three dance organizations in New Zealand: Unitech Institution of Technology (Auckland), New Zealand School of Dance (Wellington), and Southern Lights Dance Company (Christchurch). (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Luna Negra Dance Theater (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of an ongoing partnership with OtraDanza dance company in Alicante, Spain. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Maat Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre (Chicago, Illinois)
$60,000 to support the New Play Development Program (over three years). (2009)

Merit School of Music (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2011)

Morton Arboretum (Lisle, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2009)

Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$60,000 to support technology upgrades and to hire marketing and development consultants. (2009)

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of a theatrical adaptation of Pedro Paramo, a short story by Mexican writer Juan Rolfo, in collaboration with Cuban theatre company Teatro Buendia, the Goodman Theatre, and Northwestern University's Theatre and Interpretation Center. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 to support communications, marketing, and a new individual donor fundraising initiative (over two years). (2009)

National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000 to support the International Roundtable Series as part of the Year of Mexico in Chicago. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Natya Dance Theatre (Chicago, Illinois)
$47,000 to support the development of marketing and fundraising capacities (over three years). (2009)

Old Town School of Folk Music (Chicago, Illinois)
$375,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2011)

Options for Youth (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to exchange leaders of the Illinois Subsequent Pregnancy Program and partner organizations in Guanajuato, Mexico to share approaches for reducing second pregnancies among adolescent mothers. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Prince Charitable Trusts (Chicago, Illinois)
$230,000 in support of capacity building grants for organizations supported by the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture. (2009)

Prince Foundation/Prince Charitable Trusts (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 to support capacity building grants for organizations supported by the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince. (2011)

Prince Foundation/Prince Charitable Trusts (Chicago, Illinois)
$345,000 in support of capacity building grants for organizations supported by the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince. (2010)

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 to support board development, technology upgrades and program development related to moving to a permanent facility in 2010 (over three years). (2009)

Quad Communities Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to support an international study tour. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Ravinia Festival (Highland Park, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2009)

Redmoon Theater (Chicago, Illinois)
$45,000 to support an international collaboration with the Public Arts Initiative in Donegal, Ireland. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Richard H. Driehaus Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 to support the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture and the Small Theater and Dance Group Program. (2011)

Richard H. Driehaus Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$307,500 in support of the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Driehaus and the Small Theatre and Dance Group Program (over three years). (2010)

Richard H. Driehaus Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$90,000 in support of the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture and the Small Theatre and Dance Group Program. (2009)

Ruth Page Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2009)

Seldoms (Chicago, Illinois)
$25,000 in support of a reciprocal dance performance and education exchange with counterpart companies in Russia. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Silk Road Theatre Project (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 in support of Silk Road Sojourns, an audience engagement strategy (over two years). (2009)

Tamboula Ethnic Dance Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$15,000 in support of strategic planning and board and staff training (over two years). (2010)

Teatro Luna: Chicago's All Latina Theatre (Chicago, Illinois)
$47,500 to strengthen marketing and fundraising (over two years). (2009)

Teatro Vista (Chicago, Illinois)
$65,000 to provide technological upgrades and consultants to support marketing efforts (over three years). (2010)

The Seldoms (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000 to support a contemporary dance exchange with WCdance company in Taiwan. (2011)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Theatre Communications Group (New York, New York)
$30,000 in support of scholarships that will allow twenty small and mid-sized arts organizations to attend the 2010 TCG conference in Chicago. (2009)

TUTA Theatre Chicago (Niles, Illinois)
$25,000 in support of the Balkan premiere of "Homebody/Kabul." (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

University of Chicago David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2009)

University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Architecture and the Arts Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
$35,000 to support a new permanent exhibit and associated activities celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jane Addams. (2010)

Urban Gateways (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2009)

Urban Gateways (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to support a two-way exchange with community arts educators and programs in Tanzania. (2009)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Victory Gardens Theater (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2009)

WTTW Channel 11 Window to the World Communications (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2011)