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The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation is pleased to announce 29 grants, totaling over $2.5 million, to support organizations working in the areas of Arts and Culture, the Built Environment, and Investigative Journalism for Government Accountability.

Grants awarded include support for artist residency programs, a preservation study, investigative reporting newsrooms, general operating support, and more.

Congratulations to all the grant recipients! 

A Red Orchid Theatre
$80,000 to support A Red Orchid Theatre's Incubator Series

Association for Preservation Technology International
$150,000 for the APT Preservation Engineering Technical Committee Student Design-Build Competition

Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago
$120,000 for general operating support

Chalkbeat
$30,000 to support Chalkbeat Chicago

Chicago Collections
$90,000 for general operating support

Chicago Headline Club
$80,000 to support FOIA Fest, the FOIA Fest Boot Camp, and the Watchdog Award

Chicago Reader
$100,000 to support its news investigations and accountability reporting

Comfort Station
$80,000 to support residencies for artists, curators, ensembles, and producers

Constellation Performing Arts
$34,000 to support subsidized, shared space use alongside business services for Chicago-based artists and arts organizations

Eighth Blackbird
$30,000 to support the 2025 Aviary Festival

Experimental Sound Studio
$60,000 to support the 2025 and 2026 Sonic Pavilion Festival

FACETS
$60,000 to support the Chicago Alliance of Film Festivals

Folded Map Project
$75,000 as fiscal sponsor for Englewood Arts Collective, to support unBlocked Englewood

Foundation for Homan Square
$400,000 to support the external masonry repair of the Nichols Tower

Friends of the Parks
$120,000 for general operating support

Glessner House
$60,000 for general operating support

Goldin Institute
$40,000 to support the Chicago Peace Fellows program

Grow Greater Englewood
$50,000 for general operating support

Independent Film Alliance Chicago
$80,000 for general operating support

Mas Context, NFP
$50,000 for general operating support

Media Burn Archive
$60,000 to support the Digitization and Preservation Program

People for Community Recovery
$100,000 to support plans for adaptive reuse of the historic George Washington Carver School Building C into the Hazel M. Johnson Institute for sustainability and environmental justice

Preservation Chicago, NFP
$255,000 for general operating support

Promontory Point Conservancy
$113,500 to support the Marine Engineering Preservation Study of Promontory Point: McLaren Engineering Group Survey Report

Revolution Workshop
$50,000 to support its historic trades program

The Paper Machete Group Inc. NFP
$60,000 to support the Paper Machete Show

Theater Wit
$60,000 to support subsidized, shared space use alongside business services for Chicago-based artists and arts organizations

University of Illinois Chicago, College of Architecture Design and the Arts
$60,000 to support the Building Climate Resilient Space project

Visceral Dance Chicago NFP
$25,000 to support the Visceral Studio and Theater Rental Subsidy Program


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