The Driehaus Foundation is pleased to announce 28 grants, totaling nearly $3.1 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 shared space use programs, historic preservation and rehabilitation projects, investigative reporting newsrooms, general operating support, and more.
Congratulations to all the grant recipients!
Asian Improv aRts Midwest
$80,000 to support shared space use with business support services for artists and arts groups
Capitol News Illinois
$75,000 to support investigative coverage
Chicago Architecture Biennial, Inc.
$100,000 for general operating support
Community Desk Chicago
$50,000 for general operating support
Cultural Access Collaborative
$50,000 for general operating support
Filter Photo, NFP
$40,000 for the 2025 and 2026 Filter Photo Convening
Fractured Atlas
$20,000 as fiscal sponsor for wrkSHap kiloWatt, LLC, to support the program Black in Preservation
Gerber Hart Library and Archives
$60,000 for general operating support
Growing Home, Inc.
$150,000 for general operating support
Harris Theater for Music and Dance Millennium Park
$80,000 to support the Resident Company Program
Hyde Park School of Dance
$25,000 to support the Community Partnership Program
IFF
$50,000 for general operating support
Institute of Classical Architecture and Art
$40,000 to support the republication of the John Russell Pope Volumes
Investigative Project on Race and Equity
$150,000 for general operating support
National Preservation Partners Network
$65,000 for general operating support and $15,000 in year one for a special project to improve engagement and service to underrepresented communities
National Trust for Historic Preservation
$125,000 to support the management and presentation of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Historic Preservation Awards
National Trust for Historic Preservation
$1,000,000 as fiscal sponsor for RePurpose Capital, for the RePurpose Capital development loan project
Oil Painters of America
$70,000 to support the Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship for Midwestern Artists and Support for OPA's Online Showcase
Opendox
$50,000 as fiscal sponsor for Deem, to support the 2025 Deem Symposium in Chicago
PODER
$110,000 to support the PODER Community Mural
Preservation Chicago, NFP
$450,000 as fiscal sponsor, to support a publication on Solon Beman
Preservation Maryland
$150,000 to support the Campaign for Historic Trades
Report for America
$186,000 to support Report for America: 2025-2027 Corps Member Funding
Shorefront Legacy Center
$120,000 for general operating support
Snapshot Nation
$50,000 as fiscal sponsor for CityFiles Press, to support the publication "The Uptown"
The Miracle Center
$80,000 to support the Arts and Media Incubator
The Victorian Society in America
$25,000 to support the Victorian Society's Chicago Summer School
Urban Rivers
$40,000 for general operating support
