Arts & Culture Funding in Illinois
Total granted
$1.1B
Funders
667
Grants
9,562
Organizations funded
1,165
Illinois · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Arts & Culture in Illinois
Imperigo has identified 667 funders that made 9,562 grants totaling $1.1B to 1,165 arts & culture organizations in Illinois, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 2 of 4
$3.7M
27.
Forefront
$2.1M
$721K
$954K
$244K
$1.4M
$9.0M
$194K
$2.6M
$12.0M
$220K
$20.3M
$300K
$135K
$131K
$120K
$7.3M
50.
Jccc Foundation
$105K
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to arts & culture work in Illinois, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 16 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.
Other Causes Funded in Illinois
About This Data
A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering arts & culture work, with an address in Illinois. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.
Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable arts & culture funding in Illinois, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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