How much does Jerome Foundation Inc give?

Jerome Foundation Inc reported 157 grants totaling $5,494,685 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 132 and 228 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does Jerome Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (86%), Philanthropy (5%), Community Improvement (3%).

Who are Jerome Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: The Map Fund Inc ($1.1M), Propel Nonprofits ($930k), The Loft Inc ($925k).

Does Jerome Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jerome Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jerome Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The McKnight Foundation, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc.

Where is Jerome Foundation Inc based?

Jerome Foundation Inc is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Jerome Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.5M
Granted FY2026(still arriving): 157
Grants FY2026: 160
Organizations funded FY2025: 26%
First-time grantees FY2025

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Median grant, FY2026: $27,500
Largest grant, FY2026: $375,000
Organizations funded a year: 132 to 228; FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026: 5
Total assets, FY2026: $129M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 26% of the organizations Jerome Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2026still arriving	155	$5.5M	41%
FY2025	160	$5.3M	26%
FY2024	177	$5.4M	51%
FY2023	151	$5.3M	32%
FY2022	166	$4.8M	61%
FY2021	228	$5.1M	58%
FY2020	157	$3.5M	76%
FY2019	132	$4.5M	51%

97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$36MPhilanthropy$2.0MCommunity Improvement$1.2MEducation$1.1MHousing & Shelter$224kYouth Development$193kCivil Rights$162kSocial Science$137kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Map Fund Inc	$1,073,400	6	54%
Propel Nonprofits	$930,000	3	4%
The Loft Inc	$924,500	6	12%
Minneapolis College of Art and Design	$881,000	6	1%
The Playwrights' Center Inc	$877,000	7	10%
Roulette Intermedium Inc	$734,000	9	6%
American Composers Forum	$692,000	5	15%
Queens Museum of Art	$638,000	7	4%
Pillsbury United Communities	$637,000	8	1%
Springboard for the Arts	$482,300	7	3%

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All grantees of Jerome Foundation Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Map Fund Inc	$1,073,400	6	54%
Propel Nonprofits	$930,000	3	4%
The Loft Inc	$924,500	6	12%
Minneapolis College of Art and Design	$881,000	6	1%
The Playwrights' Center Inc	$877,000	7	10%
Roulette Intermedium Inc	$734,000	9	6%
American Composers Forum	$692,000	5	15%
Queens Museum of Art	$638,000	7	4%
Pillsbury United Communities	$637,000	8	1%
Springboard for the Arts	$482,300	7	3%
Movement Research Inc	$447,500	9	5%
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc	$446,000	9	5%
The Cedar Cultural Center Inc	$428,000	8	8%
Cave Canem Foundation Inc	$407,000	8	8%
New DramatistsInc	$367,000	7	5%
The Laundromat Project Inc	$364,500	10	2%
First Peoples Fund	$360,000	6	2%
The Bronx Documentary Center	$352,000	7	6%
Asian American Writers Workshop Inc	$343,000	9	14%
Franklin Furnace Archive Inc	$328,000	9	25%
The Jazz Gallery	$327,000	10	6%
Danspace Project Inc	$305,500	9	5%
The National Black Theatre Workshop	$293,000	8	2%
The Bronx Museum of the Arts	$278,800	8	1%
Soho Repertory Theatre Inc	$275,000	8	2%
Minnesota Center for Book Arts	$264,600	8	6%
Smack Mellon Studios Inc	$261,000	8	8%
Minnesota Museum of American Art	$250,000	2	0%
The Poetry Project Ltd	$247,000	9	5%
Museum of Modern Art	$244,000	1	0%
Kundiman Inc	$242,000	6	15%
The Studio Museum in Harlem	$238,334	7	0%
Pangea World Theater	$235,000	8	7%
The Camargo Foundation	$233,500	4	5%
Northern Lightsmn Inc	$228,000	4	11%
Theater Mu Incorporated	$226,300	6	5%
Coffee House Press Inc	$225,400	7	5%
Harlem Stage Inc	$225,000	8	1%
Firelight Media Inc	$224,000	6	1%
The Eyebeam Atelier Inc	$219,000	7	4%
St Paul Neighborhood Network	$210,500	6	3%
Zeitgeist	$207,000	8	12%
Highpoint Center for Printmaking	$201,000	8	4%
Red Eye Collaboration	$195,000	6	29%
The Feminist Press Inc	$192,000	6	3%
Native American Community Development Institute	$182,750	5	2%
Musical Theatre Factory Inc	$180,000	6	13%
RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART	$180,000	6	7%
Playwrights Horizons Inc	$172,000	7	0%
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Inc	$168,250	7	3%
Arts for Art Inc	$168,000	4	10%
Participant Inc	$167,200	4	14%
The Cowles Center	$161,000	2	4%
International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation Inc	$161,000	7	3%
Open Eye Theatre	$153,500	6	10%
New York Theatre Workshop Inc	$148,000	6	0%
Monkeybears Harmolodic Workshop	$145,000	7	15%
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop	$143,000	6	4%
Ananya Dance Theatre	$142,000	4	7%
Rosy Simas Danse Inc	$142,000	4	8%
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc	$140,000	2	n/a
Poets House Inc	$138,000	3	6%
Public Functionary	$138,000	4	6%
Ensemble Studio Theatre Inc	$137,000	7	3%
Indigenous Roots	$135,000	4	3%
Socrates Sculpture Park Inc	$134,500	6	2%
Threads Dance Project	$121,136	4	9%
Franconia Sculpture Park Legeros	$117,000	3	10%
Women Make Movies Inc	$115,500	5	0%
En Foco Inc	$112,000	4	17%
Forecast Public Artworks	$110,000	3	6%
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning	$110,000	3	3%
The Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York Inc	$109,000	3	3%
Camera Club of New York Inc	$106,000	5	6%
Lower East Side Printshop Inc	$104,600	6	4%
Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Inc	$104,500	5	1%
Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble Inc Dba Ma-Yi Theater Company	$104,000	4	4%
In Progress	$100,000	2	12%
Performance Space 122 Inc	$100,000	2	5%
Color Congress	$100,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Historical Society	$100,000	1	0%
More Than a Single Story Inc	$85,000	2	n/a
Tofte Lake Center Inc	$84,800	3	n/a
Gina Gibney Dance Inc	$84,500	4	0%
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc	$84,000	3	1%
Rattlestick Productions Inc	$83,000	2	4%
Filmnorth	$82,000	3	1%
Textile Center of Minnesota	$81,500	3	3%
United States Artists Inc	$79,500	3	1%
Northern Clay Center	$79,200	4	1%
Milkweed Editions Inc	$79,000	4	1%
Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center Inc	$77,000	4	1%
The Wooster Group Inc	$77,000	3	3%
Lanesboro Arts Center	$77,000	3	5%
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc	$75,000	2	1%
Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre Inc	$71,500	2	3%
Penumbra Theatre Company Inc	$70,000	2	2%
American Composers Orchestra Inc	$70,000	2	1%
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mas	$69,000	2	6%
Four Way Books Inc	$69,000	3	7%
Department of Public Transformation	$65,000	3	1%
Lark Theatre Company Inc	$65,000	2	4%
Nautilus Music Theater	$60,000	3	13%
Vocalessence	$60,000	2	1%
Open Channels New York Inc dba Dixon Place	$60,000	2	5%
Go Ko Go LLC	$59,000	3	n/a
Council on Foundations Inc	$58,400	2	0%
Jack Arts Inc	$55,500	3	1%
Walker Art Center	$55,000	4	0%
Exposed Brick Theatre	$55,000	2	10%
Art of the Rural	$55,000	2	n/a
Grantmakers in the Arts	$52,000	3	2%
Saint John's University	$51,500	2	0%
Culture Push Inc	$50,000	2	13%
Black Public Media Inc	$50,000	2	1%
AXS Lab Inc	$50,000	2	n/a
Arts Midwest Incorporated	$50,000	1	n/a
Soomaal House of Art	$50,000	2	n/a
New York Criminal Bar Association	$50,000	2	84%
Northern Point Community Church of the Nazarene	$50,000	2	n/a
Under the Radar Festival Inc	$50,000	1	3%
New York Live Arts Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Artspace Projects Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Pioneers Go East Collective Inc	$50,000	2	14%
Sundance Institute	$50,000	2	n/a
Haiti Cultural Exchange Inc	$50,000	2	7%
Camera News Inc	$50,000	2	2%
Printed Matter Inc	$48,000	2	1%
Graywolf Press	$46,000	2	1%
Leslie Parker Dance Project	$43,000	3	n/a
Minnesota Council on Foundations	$42,950	3	1%
Anderson Center Inc	$42,500	2	4%
Vsa Minnesota	$42,000	2	6%
Art in General Inc	$40,000	2	4%
New York Shakespeare Festival	$39,000	1	0%
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council	$37,500	1	1%
Mixed Blood Theatre Company	$36,000	3	1%
Ballet Works Inc	$34,000	2	2%
Harvestworks Inc	$34,000	2	4%
Real Talkies LLC	$32,000	1	n/a
Illuminadas Performing Arts School	$30,000	1	n/a
Zenon Dance Company and School Inc	$28,000	1	6%
Voice of Culture	$27,000	1	n/a
We Win Institute Inc	$27,000	1	1%
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center	$27,000	1	1%
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
New Museum of Contemporary Art	$25,000	1	n/a
Boardsource	$25,000	1	n/a
The Center for Cultural Power	$25,000	1	n/a
Mizna	$25,000	1	n/a
Theater Et Al Inc Dba the Chocolate Factory Theater	$24,000	1	3%
Rochester Art Center	$23,000	1	3%
Streb Inc	$23,000	1	1%
Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Inc	$22,500	1	n/a
Ethels Foundation for the Arts Inc	$20,000	1	3%
Lachugar	$16,000	1	n/a
Ivy Baldwin Dance Inc	$13,000	1	n/a
The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc	$12,000	1	5%
Candid	$10,500	3	0%
Artist Communities Alliance	$9,000	1	1%
Opera America Inc	$7,000	1	0%
Exapno New Music Community Center Inc	$7,000	1	n/a
Americans for the Arts Inc	$6,500	1	0%
Philanthropy New York Inc	$5,330	3	0%
Homegrown Films LLC	$5,000	1	n/a
American Museum of the Moving Image	$5,000	1	0%
National Performance Network Inc	$5,000	1	0%
White Pine Press Inc	$5,000	1	5%
Baryshnikov Arts Center Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Media Impact Funders Inc	$4,000	2	0%
Literary Freedom Project Inc	$3,750	1	5%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$2,700	1	0%
Macrostie Art Center	$2,500	1	1%
Shapeshifter Plus Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
Community Youth Care Services Inc	$2,500	1	0%
The Parrish Art Museum Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Art Matters Inc	$1,350	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 734 recipients with no EIN on record ($20M), not named here.

Jerome Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 152 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 152.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The McKnight FoundationMN107.4× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McKnight Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Target Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Jerome Foundation Inc

How much does Jerome Foundation Inc give?: Jerome Foundation Inc reported 157 grants totaling $5,494,685 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 132 and 228 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Jerome Foundation Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (86%), Philanthropy (5%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are Jerome Foundation Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: The Map Fund Inc ($1.1M), Propel Nonprofits ($930k), The Loft Inc ($925k).
Does Jerome Foundation Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2025, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jerome Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jerome Foundation Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The McKnight Foundation, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc.
Where is Jerome Foundation Inc based?: Jerome Foundation Inc is based in MN.