· Public charity
Hyde Park Art Center
The purpose of the HYDE PARK ART CENTER (the art center) is to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in chicago.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROME IN A DAY PRODUCTIONS CHICAGO | $8,000 |
| TERRAIN EXHIBITIONS | $8,000 |
| JUPITER MAGAZINE LLC | $8,000 |
| LMRM LLC | $8,000 |
| VILLARTE CHICAGO | $8,000 |
| TALA GALLERY LLC | $8,000 |
| THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO | $8,000 |
| AGNES FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC | $8,000 |
| INGA BOOKS LLC | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its 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.
14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RSROMAN SUSAN ART FOUNDATION NFP2× · 2021–2023 · $36k · revenue +303%
- RIROME IN A DAY PRODUCTIONS CHICAGO3× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +480%
- TETERRAIN EXHIBITIONS3× · 2021–2025 · $24k
Funded once
- NBNARROW BRIDGE ART CLUBone grant, 2023 · $12k
- MMMARIMACHA MONARCA PRESS LLCone grant, 2023 · $12k
- SCSPACESHIFT COLLECTIVE LLCone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
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…
EQUITY ARTS is a center for the creative economy that advances racial equity and wealth-building for artists and entrepreneurs. This reparative ownership model preserves space for synergistic exchanges between value-aligned partners. The…
Bringing together arts and culture on Chicago's far south side. Everyone deserves access to art, and creators should be treated like family.
Match Works provides financial support to Chicago visual artists to support the production of new artwork.
ASG is an exhibition and performance space dedicated to the exploration and presentation of immersive works. We provide extensive in-house resources and expertise that enable artists to promote intellectual and tangible artworks in a…
Provided arts programming including performances and artist support.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 63 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 ROMAN SUSAN ART FOUNDATION NFP ↗
- Who funds ROME IN A DAY PRODUCTIONS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE NFP ↗
- Who funds VGA Foundation ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NARROW BRIDGE ART CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALT SPACE CHICAGO ↗
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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: Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Crossroads Fund Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · Builders Vision Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Walder Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hyde Park Art Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hyde Park Art Center. Bigger dots raise more.
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