· Private foundation
Harper Court Arts Council Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hyde Park Art Center | $10,000 |
| Hyde Park Jazz Festival | $10,000 |
| Court Theatre Fund | $10,000 |
| Hyde Park School of Dance | $10,000 |
| The Experimental Station | $10,000 |
| Hyde Park Neighborhood Club | $10,000 |
| Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange | $10,000 |
| Hyde Park Youth Symphony | $9,500 |
| South East Chicago Commission | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Options For Youth | $3,000 |
| Project Fielding | $3,000 |
| Smart Museum | $3,000 |
| Definition Theatre Company | $3,000 |
| DuSable Museum | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HPHyde Park School of Dance7× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +26%
- HPHYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB7× · 2017–2023 · $128k · revenue +122%
- HPHyde Park Jazz Festival7× · 2017–2023 · $126k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- FLFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -19%
- HPHYDE PARK SUZUKI INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
- 5S57TH STREET CHILDRENS BOOK FAIRone grant, 2018 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.
The Hyde Park Theatre located in Austin, Texas was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation for the purpose of producing and presenting contemporary performance and contemporary visual art.
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.
Open Space Arts is a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to producing bold LGBTQ-focused theater and presenting independent queer cinema. The organization supports emerging and established artists while engaging audiences through live…
The Design Museum of Chicago strives to inspire, educate and innovate through design. As a resource for the Chicago design community and beyond, the museum facilitates an open dialogue about contemporary and historical design through…
The Story Theatre will pose questions, rather than provide answers. We develop and produce new work that is whimsical, melancholic, mythic in vision, and intimate in scale. We are run by a governing artistic ensemble, who ensures our work…
The Haymarket Opera Company aims to enrich the musical community of Chicago and the Midwest with performances of 17th & 18th Century opera using period instruments in the orchestra and historically informed vocal practices and staging…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Hyde Park School of Dance ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB ↗
- Who funds Hyde Park Jazz Festival ↗
- Who funds THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE CHICAGO REUSE EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITING VOICES ↗
- Who funds SOUTH EAST CHICAGO COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds Hyde Park Youth Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Ray School PTO ↗
- Who funds THE DUSABLE BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST ↗
- Who funds Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference ↗
- Who funds Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company ↗
- Who funds Hyde Park Refugee Project ↗
- Who funds DEFINITION THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Ecosystems of Care ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHORALE ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Doug and Betsey Schwab and Family Foundation Inc · Builders Vision Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · League of Chicago Theatres Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Joyce Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harper Court Arts Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harper Court Arts Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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