The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation held a board meeting on April 16, 2009 and approved the following grants (all grants are to Chicago-area organizations unless noted otherwise):

For Arts:
-Arts Work Fund: $30,000 for each of 2 years for general operations;

For the Built Environment:
-City Design Center: $25,000 to support the 2010 Architecture for Change Summit;
-Enterprise Community Partners: $20,000 for each of 3 years for the Rose Fellowship;
-Friends of the Parks: $45,000 for each of 2 years for the Public Trust and Policy Program;
-Illinois Institute of Technology: $333,000 over 3 years, as a two-to-one matching grant for the endowment for the School of Architecture MLA;
- Metropolitan Planning Council: $20,000 for technical assistance meetings and for the Great Places Award, both part of Placemaking Chicago;
-Preservation Chicago: $25,000 for general operations
-Quinn Chapel, A.M.E.: $20,000 for restoration and renovation;

For Economic Opportunity for the Working Poor:
-The Cara Program: $25,000 for general operations;
-Community Economic Development Law Project: $25,000 for the Choose to Own Program;
-Woodstock Institute: $30,000 to support a staff person dedicated to federal regulatory reform and advocacy;

From the General funding area:
-Taproot Foundation: $28,000: $18,000 to provide service grants to 3 Driehaus Foundation grant recipients, + $10,000 for general operations;

From Museums:
-Lower East Side Tenement Museum (New York, NY):  $25,000 for each of 2 years for "The Moores: An Irish Family in America."
-National Public Housing Museum: $50,000 for general operations.