In October 2007, the board of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation approved the following grants for the MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation:

Total grants made = $600,000 to 62 groups. The list of 2007 grant recipients:

New groups: [15 groups for $135,000]
1. National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum--$10,000
2. Unity Temple Restoration Foundation--$7,500 (for each of two years)
3. Back of the Yard Neighborhood Council--$10,000 (for each of two years)

4. Collaboraction--$10,000 (for each of two years)

5. Bronzeville Children's Museum--$15,000 (for each of two years)

6. The Chicago Jazz Philharmonic--$10,000 (for each of two years)

7. Circle Theatre--$10,000 (for each of two years)

8. Live Bait Theater--$7,500 (for each of two years)
9. Chicago Film Archives--$5,000 (for each of two years)
10. Split Pillow--$10,000 (for each of two years)
11. Rush Hour Concerts--$10,000 (for each of two years)

12. Involvement Advocacy--$7,500
13. Korean American Resource and Cultural Center--$7,500 (for each of two years)
14. Three Walls--$7,500 (for each of two years)
15. The Actors Gymnasium--$7,500 (for each of two years)

Continuing grants: [27 groups at $280,000]
1. Scrap Mettle SOUL--$7,500
2. Raven Theatre--$7,500 (for each of two years)
3. Jump Rhythm Jazz Project--$5,000
4. Deeply Rooted Productions--$12,500
5. Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians--$7,500
6. Rembrandt Chamber Players--$5,000
7. Open Studio Project--$5,000 (for each of two years)
8. Guild Complex--$7,500 (for each of two years)
9. Experimental Sound Studio--$5,000
10. Puerto Rican Arts Alliance--$10,000
11. Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing--$10,000
12. Chicago Artists' Coalition--$5,000
13. Chicago Dance and Music Alliance--$5,000 (for each of two years)
14. TimeLine Theater Company--$12,500
15. Chicago Dramatists--$15,000 (for each of two years)
16. Next Theatre Company--$15,000
17. Porchlight Music Theatre--$15,000 (for each of two years)
18. Hedwig Dances--$10,000
19. Chicago Moving Company--$10,000 (for each of two years)
20. International Music Foundation--$15,000 (for each of two years)
21. Jazz Institute--$15,000 (for
each of two years)
22. Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art--$15,000 (for each of two years)
23. Neighborhood Writing Alliance--$17,500 (for each of two years)
24. Natya Dance Theatre--$12,500 (for each of two years)
25. Young Chicago Authors--$10,000 (for each of two years)
26. The Poetry Center of Chicago--$10,000
27. Archeworks--$15,000 (for each of two years)

Second year of two-year grants for 2007 [20 groups receiving second-year grants for $185,000]

1. Pegasus Players--$15,000
2. Albany Park Theater Project--$12,500
3. Free Street Theater--$10,000
4. The House Theatre--$12,500
5. Stage Left--$5,000
6. The Neo-Futurists--$12,500
7. Salt Creek Ballet--$7,500
8. Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus--$12,500
9. Asian Improv aRts Midwest--$7,500
10. Fulcrum Point New Music Project--$10,000
11. Lampo--$7,500
12. International Contemporary Ensemble--$7,500
13. Chicago a cappella--$7,500
14. Orion Chamber Ensemble--$5,000
15. Eighth Blackbird--$7,500
16. Chicago Filmmakers--$7,500
17. Barrel of Monkeys--$7,500
18. AfriCaribe--$7,500
19. Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center--$10,000
20. Wonderworks: Children's Museum of Oak Park--$12,500