2025 Arts DuPage Fund Grant Recipients
Total 2025 Arts DuPage Fund Grants: $201,012
Partially funded by Andrew C. Langert Foundation
To support the 2025-2026 season of Anima’s Treble, Concert, and Touring ensembles, which will give 3rd-12th grade youth an exceptional choral education in a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere.
To support operations during the 2025-26 season to expand programs that enlighten, educate, and entertain DuPage County.
To support BTE’s educational, outreach, and job creation capabilities and celebrate the 39th season of the ensemble’s commitment to “giving stories life.”
Chhobighar Film Society: $7,500
Funded by Illinois Arts Council through the Regional Arts Partnership
To promote Bengali cinema as a medium of education and art, emphasize cultural integration through films, and ensure the next generation has access to the riches of global cinema.
Downers Grove Choral Society: $3,500
Funded by Donor-Advised Fund for Needy Children
To support the launch of a new Chamber Choir ensemble to perform outreach events at venues such as senior centers, retirement communities, and assisted living facilities.
DuPage County Historical Museum Foundation: $4,000
Funded by History DuPage Fund
To support exhibits that explore how DuPage residents express and identify themselves with military service, clothing, Muslim American culture, Black American heritage, and broader cultural imagery.
To support artist residencies by bringing world-class musicians into DuPage County schools to inspire students to create a lasting connection to the arts.
To support the “On Wonder, Mind, and Magi” interactive sensory illusion and art featuring native DuPage artist Jeanette Andrews.
Funded by Illinois Arts Council through the Regional Arts Partnership
To unite the community by providing a large celebratory event featuring art, music, and activities in support of the LGBTQ+ population.
Funded by Martha J. Johnson Fund
To support music therapy services to address the physical, emotional, behavioral, and social needs of older adults living with physical and cognitive limitations.
Funded by Donor-Advised Fund for Needy Children
To support concert performances at senior living facilities.
Illinois Conservatory for the Arts: $10,000
Funded by Illinois Arts Council through the Regional Arts Partnership
To support year-round arts education programs that provide rigorous, inclusive pre-professional training to students in DuPage County through scholarships, outreach, and performance opportunities.
Funded by Robinwood Legacy Fund
To support music and small equipment purchases, sound reinforcement personnel, and stipends for soloists and band staff.
Funded by Edward & Minnie Ceragioli Fund
To support the Community Music Program that provides exposure for local musicians in a world-class art museum.
To offer free/reduced private lessons and free ensembles, and to support essential operating costs to expand the reach and impact for students.
Opera for the Young: $5,000
To support Opera for the Young’s adaptation of Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” in eight DuPage County elementary schools, featuring a student chorus prepared by host music teachers.
Partially funded by Mary L. Voigt Fund
To support accessibility to the arts by providing free and low-cost tickets and adaptive programming for people with disabilities, serving over 20,000 individuals in the western suburbs of Chicago annually.
Senior Suburban Orchestra: $2,500
To bring live orchestral music to groups that cannot attend traditional concerts due to financial and physical restraints.
Funded by Illinois Arts Council through the Regional Arts Partnership
To support free, live music performances for patients at two DuPage hospitals to improve their well-being through the healing power of live music.
To support orchestral and operatic productions that foster the development of amateur musicians (including senior citizens) and contribute to the appreciation of music by people of all ages.
To provide barbershop-style music to underserved communities throughout the region.
To support the Sing & Celebrate Festival, uniting more than 100 low-income students with YNS singers for a day of music, mentorship, and joy at Wentz Hall.