Supporting Organizations

The Center enjoys the continuing financial support of its parent organization, Columbia College Chicago, and has received grants from a variety of private and governmental funding sources. The following is a partial list of organizations and foundations that have contributed to the Center's various programs.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois
Borg-Warner Foundation
The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Cotillion Charities Foundation, Inc. (Links)
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago Sun-Times Charity
Aaron Copland Fund for Music
Arie and Ida Crown Memorial Foundation
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co.
The Ford Foundation
Friends of the Chicago Public Library
Lloyd A. Fry Foudation
The GRAMMY Foundation
Harris Bank
Harris Foundation
Illinois Arts Council
Illinois Humanities Council
Institute for Museum and Library Services
Joyce Foundation
Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation
Links Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Robert McCormick Charitable Trust
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation
Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest Commissioning Fund
Kenneth F. and Harle G. Montgomery Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation
Northern Trust Company
Procter & Gamble Fund
Reed Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Sara Lee Foundation
Charles Sebring Family Foundation
South Carolina Educational Television
Jerome H. Stone Family Foundation
United States Trust Company
Virgin Islands Council on the Arts
Virgin Islands Cultural Heritage Institute
Virgin Island Humanities Council
West Indian Company