Grants Database
Year
Programs
Amount
Location
The Posse Foundation Inc.
To support its 2025 programming that helps recruit high-achieving Chicago Public School students into top tier colleges and universities in cohorts (known as Posses)
$20,000
The Sculpture Center
To commission Chicago-based, Puerto Rican-born artist Edra Soto to create La Distancia, a two-part gallery exhibition and outdoor sculptural installation
$100,000
Theater Mu
To commission Hmong American playwright Katie Ka Vang to develop a new theatrical work in collaboration with the Hmong community in the Twin Cities that will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hmong resettlement in the United States
$100,000
Theatre Communications Group Inc.
To support its 2024 national conference in Chicago
$20,000
Think & Associates Inc.
To curate a series of targeted public safety conversations in Chicago that center policy opportunities to prevent gun violence
$47,000
Trace Media Inc.
To expand its reporting on gun violence research and policy implementation in the Midwest
$450,000
Trustees of Princeton University
To support the Bridging Divides Initiative to provide threat monitoring, prevention, and planning support to the Great Lakes region
$400,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
For its School of Social Policy and Practice to support a pilot internship
$15,000
Understory Consulting LLC
To provide support and project management to several Joyce Foundation-supported violence prevention projects relating to the strategic dissemination of firearms research
$54,000
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago
For Community Leadership Fellows to identify and invest in community leaders from Chicago's West Side
$50,000
University of Chicago
To support the UChicago Consortium on School Research Investors Council
$300,000
University of Chicago - Consortium on Chicago School Research
For its Consortium on Chicago School Research to conduct research on chronic absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools
$200,000
University of Chicago - Institute of Politics
For its Institute of Politics to support its Youth VoteFest student programming at the summer 2024 political conventions in Milwaukee and Chicago
$50,000
University of Chicago - Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
For its Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts to support the next phase of the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project
$170,000
University of Chicago - Urban Labs
For its Urban Labs to develop a workforce training curriculum for 911 professionals in the Great Lakes region
$150,000
University of Illinois - Discovery Partners Institute
For its Discovery Partners Institute to support the Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative to produce reports on educators and college and career readiness, and to strengthen its capacity to produce timely and actionable research
$473,000