Arts & Culture Funding in Illinois
Total granted
$1.2B
Funders
685
Grants
10,074
Organizations funded
1,190
Illinois · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Arts & Culture in Illinois
Imperigo has identified 685 funders that made 10,074 grants totaling $1.2B to 1,190 arts & culture organizations in Illinois, with a median grant of $19K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 4 of 4
$1.4M
$1.4M
$500K
172.
Donors Trust Inc
$719K
$548K
$478K
191.
Seattle Foundation
$485K
203.
Greater Horizons
$664K
$966K
$395.0M
$111.5M
$31.6M
$38.6M
$53.0M
$25.2M
$13.7M
$4.4M
$7.2M
$3.3M
$1.0M
$13.6M
$1.2M
$807K
$750K
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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