Fifty groups received grants from the MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation in 2011. The grant recipients include twenty new groups and thirty groups whose grants were renewed in 2011. An additional fifty-one groups received continuing multi-year grants from past years. Here is a list of groups that received new or renewing grants last year.

MacArthur Fund New Grant Recipients in 2011
 1. Artspace Projects                                                    =$10,000 per year for two years (Special project)
 2. Art Works Projects                                                  =$  8,000 per year for two years (Interdisciplinary)
 3. Baroque Band                                                         =$  8,000 per year for two years (Music)
 4. City Lit Theater                                                      =$  7,000 for one year (Theater)
 5. Classical Kids Music and Oistrach Symphony Orchestra   =$  6,000 per year for two years (Music)
 6. Community Film Workshop                                         =$  8,000 for one year (Visual and Media Arts)
 7. Dance Chicago (Emergence Dance Theatre)                 =$10,000 per year for two years (Dance)
 8. Ensemble Dal Niente                                                 =$  7,000 per year for two years (Music)
 9. International Children’s Media Center                           =$10,000 per year for two years (Visual and Media Arts)
10. Intuit (The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art)          =$16,000 per year for two years (Museum)
11. KV265/Science Through Art                                      =$  7,000 per year for two years (Interdisciplinary)
12. Media Burn                                                            =$  7,000 per year for two years (Visual and Media Arts)
13. Pegasus Players                                                     =$12,000 per year for two years (Theater)
14. A Red Orchid Theater                                              =$10,000 per year for two years (Theater)
15. Rhino (The Poetry Forum                                         =$  2,000 per year for two years (Literary Arts)
16. Robbins Historical Society                                        =$  5,000 per year for two years (Museum)
17. Theo Ubique Cabaret Theater                                   =$  6,000 per year for two years (Music)
18. Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art                               =$  8,000 per year for two years (Museums)
19. Union Street Gallery                                                =$  8,000 per year for two years (Visual and Media Arts)
20. Young Chicago Authors                                           =$18,000 per year for two years (Theater)

MacArthur Fund Renewal Grants Made in 2011
 1. Albany Park Theater Project                                    =$16,000 per year for two years (Theater)
 2. Archeworks                                                          =$19,000 per year for two years (Interdisciplinary)
 3. Barrel of Monkeys                                                  =$11,000 per year for two years (Theater)
 4. Blair Thomas and Company                                      =$11,000 per year for two years (Theater)
 5. Bronzeville/Black Chicago Historical Society                =$  6,000 per year for two years (Museum)
 6. Bronzeville Children's Museum                                   =$19,000 per year for two years (Museum)
 7. Chicago a capella                                                  =$10,000 per year for two years (Music)
 8. Chicago Community Choir                                        =$  6,000 per year for two years (Music)
 9. Chicago Dancing Company                                       =$16,000 per year for two years (Dance)
10. Chicago Film Archives                                            =$  7,000 per year for two years (Visual and media arts)
11. Chicago Filmmakers                                               =$13,000 per year for two years (Visual or media arts)
12. Circle Theater                                                      =$13,000 for one year (Music)
13. Congo Square Theater Company                              =$16,000 per year for two years (Theater)
14. DanceWorks Chicago                                             =$11,000 per year for two years (Dance)
15. Elastic Arts Foundation                                          =$  8,000 per year for two years. (Interdisciplinary)
16. Fifth-House Ensemble                                            =$  6,000 per year for two years (Music)
17. Hedwig Dances                                                     =$13,000 per year for two years (Dance)
18. Hyde Park Cultural Alliance                                      =$14,000 per year for two years (Service or advocacy group)
19. International Contemporary Ensemble                        =$12,000 for one year (Music)
20. International Music Foundation                                 =$19,000 per year for two years (Service or advocacy group)
21. Latinos Progresando (Teatro Americano)                     =$  6,000 per year for two years (Theater)
22. Korean American Resource and Cultural Center            =$11,000 per year for two years (Service or policy group)
23. MPAACT                                                               =$11,000 per year for two years (Theater)
24. Shattered Globe                                                    =$13,000 for one year (Theater)
25. Shorefront                                                           =$  7,000 per year for two years (Special project)
26. Teatro Vista                                                          =$13,000 per year for two years (Theater)
27. Thodos Dance Company                                          =$  9,000 per year for two years (Dance)
28. Three Walls                                                          =$10,000 per year for two years (Interdisciplinary)
29. Unity Temple Restoration Foundation                         =$11,000 per year for two years (Special project)
30. Wonderworks: Children's Museum of Oak Park             =$16,000 per year for two years (Museum)