The Donor Community for the Arts in Illinois Research
(NIU)

The Illinois Art Alliance Foundation, through the assistance of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, contracted with the Center for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University to research and compile an assessment of funding to arts organizations between 1990 and 2000.

The primary objective of this research is to gain a better understanding of the important role played by area foundation through an effort that will document the arts giving of grant making organizations over the 10 year period, with substantial emphasis on the years of 1996-2000, due to the quality and consistency of data for the final five years.

The study addresses the following questions:

• What grant making organizations have been important sources of funding for the arts?
• What is the amount of annual giving that has gone to the arts by each of these grant making organizations? What proportion of annual giving has been allocated to the arts? What changes have occurred?
• What changes have occurred in the mix of uses for these funds, e.g., arts education, individual artists, cultural studies or research, general operating, capital campaigns?
• What are the funding priorities of grant making organizations? How do these priorities match with the needs perceived by the arts community?

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