Arts and Culture in Chicago

Recent Grants

Arts and Culture in Chicago

Number of Grants: 65

About Face Theatre (Chicago, IL)
$30,000 in support of general operations. (2007)
Through the MacArthur Fund at the Prince Foundation/Prince Charitable Trusts

Americans for the Arts (Washington, D.C.)
$10,000 to fund the public release of local data from an economic impact study of the nation's nonprofit arts industry. (2007)

Americans for the Arts (Washington, D.C.)
$32,000 to fund Chicago's participation in an economic impact study of the nation's nonprofit arts industry. (2006)

Apple Tree Theatre (Highland Park, IL)
$10,000 in support of general operations. (2007)
Through the MacArthur Fund at the Prince Foundation/Prince Charitable Trusts

Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000 in support of a cultural exchange with Nigerian scholars and dignitaries for the exhibition, "Benin-Kings and Rituals: Court Arts of Nigeria." (2008)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

Chicago Academy of Sciences, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

Chicago Architecture Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

Chicago Botanic Garden (Glencoe, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2006)

Chicago Children's Choir (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000 in support of the Republic of Korea Tour. (2008)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Chicago Children's Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

Chicago Children's Theatre (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in special support of start-up expenses (over three years). (2005)

Chicago Cultural Center Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$225,000 to update and expand the Chicago Artists' Resource website (over three years). (2007)

Chicago Foundation for Women (Chicago, Illinois)
$10,000 in support of the Eleanor Petersen Legacy Fund. (2005)

Chicago History Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
$375,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

Chicago Human Rhythm Project (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of an exchange program with the Beijing Contemporary Music Institute and the China Performing Arts Agency to attend the tap festival "Rhythm World." (2008)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Chicago Sinfonietta (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 to expand www.chicagoclassicalmusic.org, a website run by a consortium of classical music groups (over three years). (2007)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield Zoo (Brookfield, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2006)

Children First Fund (Chicago, Illinois)
$25,000 in support of Chicago Science in the City. (2007)

City Colleges of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of general operations for WYCC-TV 20 (over five years). (2005)

City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Special Events (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of the annual Chicago Jazz Festival. (2008)

Court Theatre (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

DuSable Museum of African American History (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2005)

Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of Media Bridge: Global Exchanges in Youth Filmmaking. (2008)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2006)

Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

Grant Park Orchestral Association Music Festival (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

Grantmakers in the Arts (Seattle, Washington)
$45,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2007)

Grantmakers in the Arts (Seattle, Washington)
$25,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2005)

Harris Theater for Music and Dance (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of a subsidized usage program for smaller arts organizations (over three years). (2007)

Harris Theater for Music and Dance (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in support of a subsidized usage program for smaller arts organizations (over two years). (2005)

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights (Chicago, Illinois)
$45,000 in support of the Human Rights and Organizational Leadership Development Program in Chicago. (2008)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$10,000 in support of scholarships to the fifth biennial "One State: Together in the Arts" conference. (2007)

Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$20,000 in support of the "One State: Together in the Arts" conference. (2005)

John G. Shedd Aquarium (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago (Glenview, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2005)

League of Chicago Theatres (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 to support the second phase of an online ticketing system. (2005)

Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$42,500 in support of the Chicago Sunday Parkways Stakeholders Committee to participate in a seminar in Ecuador. (2008)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Lookingglass Theatre Company (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2005)

Lyric Opera of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

Merit School of Music (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2006)

Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in support of exhibit design and fabrication (over three years). (2005)

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Illinois)
$375,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

Newberry Library (Chicago, Illinois)
$375,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2008)

Next Theatre Company (Evanston, Illinois)
$7,500 in support of the development of a Czech theatre adaptation with colleagues in Prague. (2008)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Northlight Theatre (Skokie, Illinois)
$200,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

Old Town School of Folk Music (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2006)

Pegasus Players (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to expand the Global Voices program. (2008)
Grant awarded as part of the International Connections Fund.

Prince Foundation/Prince Charitable Trusts (Chicago, Illinois)
$5,000,000 in support of the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture (over five years). (2007)

Richard H. Driehaus Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$5,000,000 in support of the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture and the Small Theater and Dance Group Program (over five years). (2007)

Richard H. Driehaus Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$660,000 to create a fund to support small arts organizations in obtaining the new Performing Arts Venue license. (2006)

Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$25,000 to support the annual Richard J. Daley Urban Forum (over two years). (2008)

University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$10,000 in support of the third annual Richard J. Daley Urban Forum, Building the Future City. (2007)

University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$25,000 in support of the second annual Richard J. Daley Urban Forum, "Globalizing Cities: Chicago and the World." (2005)

Urban Gateways (Chicago, Illinois)
$20,000 to support technology upgrades. (2008)

WBEZ Alliance (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2006)

Writers' Theatre (Glencoe, Illinois)
$200,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2007)

WTTW Channel 11, Window to the World Communications (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over five years). (2006)