In October, 2006, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation held a board meeting and approved the following grants for the MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation:

Total grants made = $500,000 to 51 groups. The list of 2006 grant recipients:

** Denotes new two-year grant for 2006-2007

Theater: Nine groups for $95,000
1) Pegasus Players = $15,000 **
2) Albany Park Theater Project = $12,500 **
3) Free Street Theater = $10,000 **
4) Scrap Mettle SOUL = $10,000
5) The House Theatre = $12,500 **
6) Raven Theatre = $ 7,500
7) Stage Left = $ 5,000 **
8) The Neo-Futurists = $12,500 **
9) Congo Square Theatre Co. = $10,000

Dance: (Three groups for $22,500)
1) Salt Creek Ballet = $ 7,500 **
2) Jump Rhythm Jazz Project = $ 5,000
3) Deeply Rooted Productions = $10,000

Music: (Ten groups for $77,500)
1) Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus = $12,500 **
2) Asian Improv aRts Midwest = $ 7,500 **
3) Fulcrum Point New Music
Project = $10,000 **
4) Lampo = $ 7,500 **
5) International Contemporary
Ensemble = $ 7,500 **
6) Chicago a cappella = $ 7,500 **
7) Orion Chamber Ensemble = $ 5,000 **
8) Association for the Advancement
of Creative Musicians = $ 7,500
9) Eighth Blackbird = $ 7,500 **
10) Rembrandt Chamber Players= $ 5,000

Visual and media arts: (Three groups for $22,500)
1) Anchor Graphics = $10,000
2) Chicago Filmmakers = $ 7,500 **
3) Open Studio Project = $ 5,000

Literary arts: (One group for $7,500)
1) Guild Complex = $ 7,500

Interdisciplinary arts: (Four groups for $27,500)
1) Experimental Sound Studio = $ 5,000
2) AfriCaribe = $ 7,500 **
3) Puerto Rican Arts Alliance = $ 7,500
4) Barrel of Monkeys = $ 7,500 **

Special projects: (One group at $10,000)
1) Gwendolyn Brooks Center for
Black Literature and Creative
Writing = $10,000

Museums: (Two groups for $22,500)
1) Hellenic Museum and
Cultural Center = $10,000 **
2) Wonderworks: Children’s Museum
of Oak Park = $12,500 **

Service, policy or advocacy groups: (Three groups for $20,000)
1) Chicago Artists’ Coalition = $ 7,500
2) Chicago Human Rhythm Project = $ 7,500
3) Chicago Dance and Music Alliance = $ 5,000

Fifteen groups that we gave two-year grants to in 2005: ($195,000)
1) TimeLine Theater Company = $12,500
2) Chicago Dramatists = $12,500
3) Next Theatre Company = $12,500
4) Porchlight Music Theatre = $12,500
5) Hedwig Dances = $10,000
6) Natya Dance Theatre = $10,000
7) Chicago Moving Company = $10,000
8) Luna Negra Dance Theater = $10,000
9) International Music Foundation = $15,000
10) Jazz Institute = $15,000
11) Intuit: The Center for
Intuitive and Outsider Art = $15,000
12) Neighborhood Writing Alliance = $20,000
13) Young Chicago Authors = $12,500
14) The Poetry Center of Chicago = $12,500
15) Archeworks = $15,000