Arts & Culture

MacArthur’s support for over 200 arts and cultural organi­ zations in and the region is an expression of its civic commitment to the community where the Foundation is headquartered and John and Catherine MacArthur made their home. Grants are designed to help sustain the cultural life of the city and region.

Pulitzer-Prize winning August: Osage County, written by Steppenwolf Theater ensemble member Tracy Letts.

AT A GLANCE

• The MacArthur Foundation makes grants totaling $7 million • Most of MacArthur’s arts and culture grants are for general each year to more than 200 arts and culture organizations operations to provide the flexible support organizations in the Chicago area, including theaters, dance groups, music need most. organizations, visual art programs, film centers, museums, and libraries. • The Foundation also provides support for special time-limited efforts to respond to particular needs in the arts community. • These grants reflect the Foundation’s civic commitment to its hometown and are designed to sustain and strengthen the cultural fabric of Chicago.

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BACKGROUND In reviewing proposals from arts groups, boards; and tap into new sources of the Foundation considers: financial support. To qualify, arts ­­Each year MacArthur provides $7 million • quality of the organization’s artistic organizations must be led by in grants to more than 200 arts and programs; professionals from these cultural culture groups in the Chicago region, communities and have a mission to including theaters, dance groups, music • strength of its board and staff leadership; communicate the experiences of these organizations, visual art programs, • impact on the surrounding neighbor­ cultures through the arts. film centers, museums, and libraries. hood, the city or the region; This support is an expression of the Working Capital Loan Fund Foundation’s civic commitment to • sizes and types of audiences served; Chicago and is designed to help and To provide needed capital to arts organi­ strengthen the cultural life of the city. • community and educational outreach zations, which often experience cyclical activities. cash flow gaps, MacArthur established The majority of MacArthur support is in the $1 million Working Capital Loan Fund. the form of multi-year, general operating The Fund is housed and managed by support, which provides organizations ShoreBank, a commercial bank with a the necessary flexibility to take creative Special Initiatives community development mission, and risks and fund ongoing work. This provides both short-term loans and grantmaking is carried out in partnership From time to time MacArthur supports longer-term lines of credit at competitive with the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation projects and initiatives to benefit the terms. The program is designed to help and the Prince Charitable Trusts, which sector or to respond to particular needs organizations improve their financial administer grants from MacArthur Funds in the community. Examples include the management and establish banking established at their foundations to small Cultural Data Project, which allows arts relationships, sometimes for the first time. (those with budgets of less than $500,00) organizations to better manage and To apply for a loan, organizations first and mid-sized (those with budgets between analyze their financial and organizational contact the Executive Service Corps of $500,000 – $2 million) arts and culture data in a user-friendly, online format; the Chicago, which conducts an initial groups. MacArthur also supports the expansion of the Arts and Business assessment of the organization’s eligibility Small Theater and Dance Fund at the Council of Chicago’s On BOARD program and supports the organization as it Driehaus Foundation, which provides to identify, train and place professionals prepares to apply for loans from ShoreBank. general operating support to organizations on the boards of small and mid-sized arts with annual budgets under $150,000. and culture organizations; and the subsidy These partnerships not only allow rental program at the Harris Theatre for MacArthur to sustain its support across Music and Dance, which makes it all sizes of arts organizations in Chicago, financially feasible for the Foundation’s but they also leverage the experience and small and mid-sized arts organizations to wisdom of Prince and Driehaus, which use the theatre’s space for rehearsals have expertise both in funding small arts and performances. groups and providing technical assistance to strengthen these organizations Arts Opportunity Fund administratively and artistically. MacArthur makes grants directly to those groups In 2009 MacArthur launched the $1 million, with budgets greater than $2 million. time-limited Arts Opportunity Fund to support the strengthening of African American, Latino, Native American or Asian arts and culture groups. It is designed to help qualifying organizations broaden audiences; cultivate a new generation of management talent; expand and develop

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General Operating Support Grants Orchestral Association MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Prince Charitable Trusts Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Direct Funding Through the MacArthur Fund for Arts The 48 arts and culture grantees listed John G. Shedd Aquarium and Culture, the Prince Charitable Trusts below receive funding directly from the Kohl Children’s Museum of supports a total of 41 organizations with MacArthur Foundation. The amount of general operating funds. In 2008, this Greater Chicago support for each of these groups is based fund awarded 41 grants totaling over on its budget size: organizations with ’ Humanities Council $1 million in new or renewed support budgets of $2 to $5 million receive League of Chicago Theatres to the mid-sized arts and cultural organi­ $50,000 per year; those with budgets of zations listed below. $5 to $10 million receive $60,000 per year; Lincoln Park Zoo groups with budgets of $10 to $20 million Lookingglass Theatre About Face Theatre receive $75,000 per year; and the largest American Theater Company organizations, with budgets over Lyric – Young Singers of Greater Chicago $20 million, receive $100,000 per year. Merit School of Music Apple Tree Theatre Morton Arboretum Arts & Business Council of Chicago Art Institute Museum of Contemporary Art Beverly Arts Center After School Matters Museum of Science and Industry Black Ensemble Theater Chicago Academy of Sciences, National Museum of Mexican Art The Chicago Chamber Musicians Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Chicago Children’s Theatre Chicago Architecture Foundation Northlight Theatre The Chicago Classical Recording Chicago Botanic Garden Foundation Old Town School of Chicago Children’s Choir Chicago Human Rhythm Project Chicago Children’s Museum Chicago Ensemble Sherwood Conservatory of Music, Chicago Public Art Group Humanities Festival Steppenwolf Theatre Company Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras Chicago Shakespeare Theater The Child’s Play Touring Theatre Chicago Symphony Orchestra The , Congo Square Theatre Company Chicago Zoological Society, The The Dance Center of Columbia Brookfield Zoo Urban Gateways College Chicago ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Inc. DuSable Museum of African American Gene Siskel Film Center of the School WBEZ Alliance History of the Writers’ Theatre Facets Multimedia Hyde Park Art Center Field Museum WTTW Channel 11 Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation Preservation Trust WYCC-TV Channel 20, City Colleges International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago of Chicago

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Dancers practice in the Joffrey Ballet’s new facility in downtown Chicago.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture Blair Thomas & Company Outsider Art at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Bronzeville Children’s Museum Lifeline Productions, Inc. Through the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture, the Richard H. Driehaus Light Opera Works Foundation currently supports 74 organi­ Chicago Artists’ Coalition zations with general operating funds. Chicago Community Chorus Marwen Between 2008 and 2009, this Fund awarded 52 grants totaling over $900,000 Chicago Dance and Music Alliance Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago in new or renewed support to small arts Chicago Dancemakers Forum Music of the Baroque and cultural organizations. Below is a list of organizations that received supported Next Theatre Company Chicago Film Archives through this fund in 2008 and 2009. Pegasus Players Chicago Filmmakers Puerto Rican Arts Alliance 500 Clown Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Actors Gymnasium Chicago Moving Company Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Adventure Stage Chicago Circle Theatre of Forest Park The Renaissance Society Albany Park Theater Project Collaboraction River North Chicago Dance Company Archeworks DanceWorks Chicago SCT Productions Artistic Home Deeply Rooted Productions Street-Level Youth Media Asian Improv aRts Midwest eighth blackbird Performing Arts of Chicago Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council Association TimeLine Theatre Company Barrel of Monkeys Productions Experimental Sound Studio

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation page 4 Fifth House Ensemble Salt Creek Ballet Breakbone Dance Company Free Street Theater Shattered Globe Theatre Bruised Orange Theater Company Fulcrum Point New Music Project ShawChicago Theater Company Buffalo Theatre Ensemble Fund for Innovative TV Silk Road Theatre Project The Building Stage Global Girls Skokie Theatre Music Foundation City Lit Theater Company Griffin Theatre Company South Suburban Archaeological Society Clinard Dance Theatre Guild Complex Split Pillow Corn Productions Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Stage Left Curious Theatre Branch Black Literature Hedwig Dances Teatro Americano The Dance Collective Hoperaworld Teatro Vista Dream Theatre Company House Theatre of Chicago Third Coast Percussion Eclipse Theatre Company The Hypocrites Thodos Dance Chicago EP Theatre International Contemporary Ensemble ThreeWalls The Gift Theatre Company International Music Foundation Unity Temple Restoration Foundation Infamous Commonwealth Theatre Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Wonderworks: Children’s Museum Kalapriya Foundation Outsider Art of Oak Park Khecari Dance Theatre Jazz Institute of Chicago Young Chicago Authors The Lira Dancers Jump Rhythm Jazz Project Youth Choral Theatre of Chicago Lucky Plush Productions Korean American Resource & Cultural Center Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company Lampo Small Theater and Dance Fund at Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak Links Hall the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Mordine & Company Each year, MacArthur contributes The Moving Architects Live Bait Theater $180,000 to the Small Theater and Dance MOMENTA Performing Arts Company Fund at Driehaus, which currently MPAACT MPAACT supports 47 companies with budgets New Millennium Theatre Company less than $150,000. In 2008, this Fund National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum New World Repertory Theater awarded 40 new or renewed grants to Natya Dance Theatre the smallest theatre and dance organi­ Oak Park Festival Theatre Neighborhood Writing Alliance zations. Below is a list of organizations that received support through this fund -Futurists Redtwist Theatre in 2008. Norton Building Concert Series Rivendell Theatre Ensemble Open Studio Project 500 Clown Same Planet Different World Orion Chamber Ensemble Sansculottes Theater Company Poetry Center of Chicago Aguijon Theater Company The Seldoms Chicago Attic Playhouse Serendipity Theatre Collective Raven Theatre Company BackStage Theatre Company Still Point Theatre Collective Rembrandt Chamber Players Black Sheep Productions Tamboula Ethnic Dance Corporation Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral Bohemian Theatre Ensemble Teatro Luna

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Theater Oobleck Grantmakers in the Arts Arts Opportunity Fund Grants Theo Ubique Theatre Company $35,000 in support of database infra­ structure strengthening and the 2010 Black Ensemble Theater conference to be held in Chicago $80,000 in support of succession Walkabout Theater Company (over two years) planning and technology upgrades (over two years). John F. Kennedy Center for Special Time-Limited Initiatives the Performing Arts Korean American Resource & and Projects $100,000 in support of in support Cultural Center of Capacity Building: Midwest (over $75,000 in support of the development and expansion of its Culture Program ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL two years) (over three years). LIBRARY AND MUSEUM $125,000 in support of the Four Score for Music M’aat Production Association of and Seven Project in honor of Lincoln’s and Dance Afrikan Centered Theatre (MPAACT) Bicentennial birthday (over one year) $150,000 in support of a subsidized $60,000 in support of its New Play usage program for smaller arts Development Program (over three years). Arts and Business Council organizations (over three years) of Chicago Natya Dance Theatre $225,000 in support of expanding the Mayor’s Office for Special Events, $47,000 to support the development of On BOARD Program, which helps to City of Chicago its marketing and fundraising capacities identify, train and place Chicago $50,000 in support of the 2008 Chicago (over three years). professionals on the boards of nonprofit Jazz Festival (over one year) program (over three years) Puerto Rican Arts Alliance Pew Charitable Trusts $75,000 in support of board development, Chicago Council on Science and $150,000 in support of the Illinois Cultural technology upgrades and program Technology (C2ST) Data Project (over three years) development related to its move to a $125,000 in support of start-up and permanent new facility in 2010 (over general operations (over one year) Theatre Communications Group three years). $30,000 in support of scholarships that will allow twenty small and Silk Road Theatre Project Foundation mid-sized arts organizations to attend $75,000 in support of Silk Road $225,000 to update and expand the the 2010 TCG conference in Chicago Sojourns, its audience engagement Chicago Artists’ Resource website strategy (over two years). (over three years) (over one year) Teatro Luna: Chicago’s All University of Chicago Chicago Sinfonietta Latina Theatre Cultural Policy Center $75,000 to support the expansion of $47,500 to support the strengthening of www.chicagoclassicalmusic.org, a $150,000 in support of the Cultural its marketing and fundraising functions website run by a consortium of classical Infrastructure Project to study the impact (over two years). music groups (over three years) of capital campaigns on arts organiza­ tions undertaking building projects and Executive Service Corps of Chicago on the arts communities where they Civic Grants $100,000 in support of technical reside (over one year) assistance for the Foundation’s Working Black Metropolis Research Capital Loan Fund established in Urban Gateways Council cooperation with ShoreBank (over $20,000 in support of technology $150,000 in special start-up support two years) upgrades (over one year) (over two years)

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation page 6 Chicago Metropolis 20/20 Chicago Public Library Foundation University of Illinois at Chicago $300,000 in support of a project to $50,000 in support of a Science Chicago $35,000 in support of the annual Richard reform Illinois’ transportation system, lecture series featuring MacArthur J. Daley Urban Forum (over two years) as part of Chicago’s Burnham Plan Fellows at the Chicago Public Library Centennial celebration (over one year) (over one year)

Puppets from the Redmoon Theater production of The Cabinet, based on the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

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Additional Resources

Prince Charitable Trusts: www.foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/prince/chicago.html

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation: www.driehausfoundation.org/

ShoreBank: www.shorebankcorp.com

Americans for the Arts: www.americansforthearts.org

The Arts & Business Council: www.artsbiz-chicago.org

Chicago Artists Resource: www.chicagoartistsresource.org

The Chicago Jazz Partnership: chicagojazzpartnership.org

The Executive Service Corps of Chicago: www.esc-chicago.org

Grantmakers in the Arts: www.giarts.org

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: www.kennedy-center.org/education

National Endowment for the Arts: www.nea.gov

Theatre Communications Group: www.tcg.org

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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation November 2009