How much does League of Chicago Theatres Foundation give?

League of Chicago Theatres Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $199,360, out of $4,095,331 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does League of Chicago Theatres Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (99%), Health (1%).

Who are League of Chicago Theatres Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Theatre Y ($37k), Chicago Children's Theatre ($33k), Maywood Fine Arts Association ($30k).

Does League of Chicago Theatres Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as League of Chicago Theatres Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Field Foundation of Illinois, Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.

Where is League of Chicago Theatres Foundation based?

League of Chicago Theatres Foundation is based in IL.

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League of Chicago Theatres Foundation

LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION supports the work of league of chicago theatres through grantmaking and fundraising.

$4.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 17
Itemized grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 81%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $199k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 26; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $1.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 81% of the organizations League of Chicago Theatres Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$199k	88%
FY2024	16	$201k	81%
FY2023	1	$8k	0%
FY2022	26	$300k	92%
FY2021	12	$113k	92%
FY2020	21	$206k	95%
FY2019	14	$145k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MHealth$14k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Theatre Y	$36,900	2	33%
Chicago Children's Theatre	$32,678	2	1%
Maywood Fine Arts Association	$30,000	3	1%
Free Street Theater	$27,500	2	4%
Underscore Theatre Company	$25,500	1	n/a
Albany Park Theater Project	$25,000	1	1%
Hyde Park Art Center	$25,000	1	1%
Steppenwolf Theatre Company	$25,000	1	0%
Northlight Theatre Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Lyric Opera of Chicago	$25,000	1	0%

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All grantees of League of Chicago Theatres Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Theatre Y	$36,900	2	33%
Chicago Children's Theatre	$32,678	2	1%
Maywood Fine Arts Association	$30,000	3	1%
Free Street Theater	$27,500	2	4%
Underscore Theatre Company	$25,500	1	n/a
Albany Park Theater Project	$25,000	1	1%
Hyde Park Art Center	$25,000	1	1%
Steppenwolf Theatre Company	$25,000	1	0%
Northlight Theatre Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Lyric Opera of Chicago	$25,000	1	0%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Theater Wit Nfp	$22,435	2	3%
Special Gifts Theatre Inc Co Elise Larsen	$20,000	2	2%
Elmhurst Art Museum	$20,000	2	1%
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble	$17,500	2	3%
Jackalope Theatre Company	$15,500	2	n/a
About Face Theatre Collective Inc	$13,909	1	2%
Beverly Arts Center of Chicago	$13,111	1	1%
The Miracle Center	$12,500	1	n/a
Adventure Theatre Inc	$12,500	1	1%
The Arts of Life Inc	$10,000	1	1%
International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago	$10,000	1	1%
Institute for Latino Progress	$10,000	1	0%
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra	$10,000	1	1%
West Side Show Room	$10,000	1	19%
Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago	$10,000	1	4%
Esperanza Community Services	$10,000	1	0%
Full Spectrum Features NFP	$10,000	1	0%
Changing Worlds	$10,000	1	1%
Court Theatre Fund	$10,000	1	n/a
The Experimental Station	$10,000	1	0%
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Salt Creek Ballet Company	$10,000	1	1%
Snow City Arts Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Oil Lamp Theater Nfp	$10,000	1	n/a
Chicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center	$10,000	1	2%
Archi-Treasures Association	$10,000	1	2%
Collaboraction Theatre Co	$10,000	1	2%
Englewood Arts	$10,000	1	1%
Old Town School of Folk Music	$10,000	1	0%
The Firehouse Dream Inc	$10,000	1	4%
Water People Theater Group Nfp	$10,000	1	5%
Playmakers Laboratory Theatre	$10,000	1	3%
Grant Park Orchestral Association	$10,000	1	0%
Chicago Dance Crash Nfp	$10,000	1	4%
Muntu Dance Theatre	$10,000	1	3%
Elastic Arts Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
SkyArt NFP	$10,000	1	1%
Side Street Studio Arts	$10,000	1	4%
Chicago Jazz Philharmonic	$10,000	1	1%
Green Star Movement NFP	$10,000	1	2%
Definition Theatre Company	$10,000	1	2%
Nonop Inc	$10,000	1	6%
Kalapriya Foundation Center for Indian Performing Arts Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Crossing Borders Music Collective	$10,000	1	5%
Homewood Science Center	$10,000	1	5%
The Rebuild Foundation Nfp	$10,000	1	n/a
Mudlark Theater Company NFP	$10,000	1	1%
Invictus Theatre	$10,000	1	13%
Chicago Blues Museum	$10,000	1	11%
Congo Square Theatre Company	$10,000	1	1%
Momenta	$10,000	1	5%
The Crystal Lake Strikers Drumline Inc	$9,712	1	18%
Faubourg Theatre Inc	$9,650	1	6%
Art Encounter	$9,500	1	1%
Batavia Foundation for Educational Excellence	$9,000	1	3%
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre	$8,600	1	4%
Chimera Inc	$8,500	1	n/a
Subtext Studio Theater	$8,500	1	n/a
Freeport Arts Center	$8,250	1	2%
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)	$8,078	1	1%
Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago	$8,000	1	2%
Rockford Area Arts Council	$8,000	1	3%
Piven Theatre Workshop	$8,000	1	2%
Berwyn Public Art Initiative Nfp	$8,000	1	n/a
Trickster Art Gallery	$8,000	1	2%
The Wasteshed	$8,000	1	2%
Shattered Globe Theatre	$7,900	1	2%
Totallink to Community Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Emerald City Theatre Company	$7,500	1	n/a
Filament Theatre Ensemble Nfp	$7,500	1	n/a
Prairie Center Arts Foundation	$7,500	1	13%
Elmhurst Choral Union	$7,500	1	14%
Chopin Theatre Productions Nfp	$7,500	1	2%
The Warehouse Inc	$7,280	1	6%
Repertorio Latino Theater Company	$7,000	1	n/a
Citadel Theatre Company	$7,000	1	2%
Barrington Youth Dance Ensemble Inc	$6,785	1	2%
Performing Arts at Metropolis	$6,500	1	0%
Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago	$6,500	1	0%
Victory Gardens Theater	$6,080	1	0%
Raven Theatre Company	$5,919	1	1%
Chicago Heights Drama Group	$5,890	1	n/a
Links Hall Inc	$5,483	1	1%
Sharing Notes	$5,360	1	4%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

League of Chicago Theatres Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 82.

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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.

Field Foundation of IllinoisIL73.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Field Foundation of Illinois · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Richard H Driehaus Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Walder Foundation · Prince Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About League of Chicago Theatres Foundation

How much does League of Chicago Theatres Foundation give?: League of Chicago Theatres Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $199,360, out of $4,095,331 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does League of Chicago Theatres Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (99%), Health (1%).
Who are League of Chicago Theatres Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Theatre Y ($37k), Chicago Children's Theatre ($33k), Maywood Fine Arts Association ($30k).
Does League of Chicago Theatres Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as League of Chicago Theatres Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Field Foundation of Illinois, Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is League of Chicago Theatres Foundation based?: League of Chicago Theatres Foundation is based in IL.