Grants to Chicago Arts and Culture Organizations
November, 2005

Direct MacArthur Foundation Grants to Large Arts and Culture Groups

DuSable Museum of African American History  $150,000 over 5 years  
Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago  $150,000 over 5 years
Lookingglass Theatre Company    $150,000 over 5 years
WYCC Channel 20 at City Colleges of Chicago  $150,000 over 5 years
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 4 grants     $600,000

Special Projects

Harris Theater for Music and Dance   $100,000 over 2 years
League of Chicago Theatres    $300,000 over 1 year
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2 grants      $400,000
 
Grants made through the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the
Prince Charitable Trusts

About Face Theater     $60,000 over two years
Apple Tree Theatre     $40,000 over two years
Arts and Business Council of Chicago   $40,000 over two years
Bailiwick Theatre     $40,000 over two years
Black Ensemble Theater     $40,000 over two years
Chicago Chamber Musicians    $50,000 over two years
Chicago Jazz Ensemble     $40,000 over two years
Chicago Public Art Group    $40,000 over two years
Chicago Sinfonietta     $40,000 over two years
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra   $50,000 over two years
Child’s Play Touring Theatre    $40,000 over two years
Dance Center of Columbia College   $60,000 over two years
eta Creative Arts Foundation, Inc.   $40,000 over two years
Gene Siskel Film Center     $60,000 over two years
HotHouse      $50,000 over two years
Hyde Park Art Center     $50,000 over two years
Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation   $40,000 over two years
International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago  $40,000 over two years
Lifeline Productions, Inc.    $50,000 over two years
Marwen       $40,000 over two years
Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago    $60,000 over two years
Music of the Baroque     $60,000 over two years
Redmoon Theater      $40,000 over two years
Remy Bumppo      $40,000 over two years
Renaissance Society     $30,000 over two years
River North Chicago Dance Company   $50,000 over two years
SCT Productions      $40,000 over two years
Street-Level Youth Media    $40,000 over two years
Writers’ Theatre     $20,000 over one year

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29 grants      $1,290,000
 
Grants made through the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation

Dance

Chicago Moving Company      $20,000 over two years
Deeply Rooted Productions     $10,000
Hedwig Dances       $20,000 over two years
Jump Rhythm Jazz Project    $5,000
Luna Negra Dance Theater     $20,000 over two years
Natya Dance Theatre      $20,000 over two years
Salt Creek Ballet      $7,500

Literary Arts

Guild Complex:       $12,500
Neighborhood Writing Alliance     $40,000 over two years
Poetry Center of Chicago     $25,000 over two years
Young Chicago Authors      $25,000 over two years

Museums

Chicago Blues Museum      $10,000
Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center    $10,000
International Center for Deafness    $5,000

Music

Asian Improv aRts Midwest      $7,500
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians $10,000
Chicago a cappella      $7,500
Chicago Brass Band Association     $5,000
Eighth Blackbird      $7,500
Fulcrum Point New Music Project    $7,500
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus    $10,000
International Contemporary Ensemble    $7,500
International Music Foundation     $30,000 over two years
Jazz Institute       $30,000 over two years
Lampo        $7,500
L’Opera Piccola      $5,000
Opera Theatre North      $5,000
Orion Chamber Ensemble      $5,000
Rembrandt Chamber Players     $5,000

Theater

Albany Park Theater Project    $12,500
Chicago Dramatists     $25,000 over two years
Chicago Theatre Company     $15,000
Circle Theater of Forest Park     $10,000
Congo Square Theatre Company    $10,000
Free Street Theater     $10,000
House Theatre       $10,000
Neo-Futurists      $12,500
Next Theater Company     $25,000 over two years
Pegasus Players      $17,500 
Porchlight Music Theatre    $25,000 over two years
Raven Theatre       $7,500
Scrap Metal SOUL     $10,000
Stage Left       $5,000
TimeLine Theater Company    $25,000 over two years

Visual and Media Arts

Anchor Graphics      $12,500
Chicago Filmmakers      $7,500
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art  $30,000 over two years

Interdisciplinary Arts

Archeworks       $30,000 over two years
Experimental Sound Studio     $5,000

Service, Policy or Advocacy Groups

Chicago Artists’ Coalition     $7,500
Chicago Human Rhythm Project     $7,500
 
Special Projects

Chicago Ballet Russe Foundation    $5,000

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52 grants      $705,000