2025 Arts DuPage Fund Grant Recipients

Total 2025 Arts DuPage Fund Grants: $201,012

  • Anima – Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus: $10,000
    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.

  • BrightSide Theatre: $25,000
    To support operations during the 2025-26 season to expand programs that enlighten, educate, and entertain DuPage County.

  • Buffalo Theatre Ensemble: $25,000
    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.

  • DuPage Symphony Orchestra: $10,590
    To support artist residencies by bringing world-class musicians into DuPage County schools to inspire students to create a lasting connection to the arts.

  • Elmhurst Art Museum: $25,000
    To support the “On Wonder, Mind, and Magi” interactive sensory illusion and art featuring native DuPage artist Jeanette Andrews.

  • Equality Downers Grove (EQDG): $5,000
    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.

  • ESSE Adult Day Services: $10,000
    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.

  • Glen Ellyn-Wheaton Chorale: $4,472
    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.

  • Lisle Community Band: $5,000
    Funded by Robinwood Legacy Fund
    To support music and small equipment purchases, sound reinforcement personnel, and stipends for soloists and band staff.

  • Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art: $3,000
    Funded by Edward & Minnie Ceragioli Fund
    To support the Community Music Program that provides exposure for local musicians in a world-class art museum.

  • Mays Music Centre Of Excellence: $5,000
    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.

  • Paramount Theatre: $21,000
    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.

  • Sharing Notes: $5,000
    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.

  • Sinfonietta Bel Canto: $5,000
    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.

  • The West Towns Chorus: $5,000
    To provide barbershop-style music to underserved communities throughout the region.

  • Young Naperville Singers: $4,450
    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.
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