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Jerome Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
168
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$36MPhilanthropy$2.0MCommunity Improvement$1.2MEducation$1.1MHousing & Shelter$224kYouth Development$193kCivil Rights$162kSocial Science$137kOther$0
02FY2025 · 168 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k145 grants · $3.9M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$115M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Springboard for the Arts$200,000
The MAP Fund$187,500
Color Congress$100,000
Minneapolis College of Art and Design$100,000
Foundation for Contemporary Arts$100,000
Minnesota Historical Society$100,000
American Composers Forum$87,500
Loft Inc$87,500
Playwrights' Center$87,500
Queens Museum$87,000
The Cedar Cultural Center$80,000
Roulette Intermedium$65,000
First Peoples Fund$60,000
Movement Research$51,000
Brooklyn Arts Exchange$48,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Haiti Cultural Exchange: $23k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
SD
OH
PA
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
HI
LA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 283 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

283 repeat relationships — 119 still active in FY2025, 164 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

283
525

Total granted

$31M
$8.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+40%

Still filing today

40%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEmploymentCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PN
    PROPEL NONPROFITS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $930k · revenue +176%
  • TL
    THE LOFT INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $832k · revenue +7%
  • MC
    MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    5× · 2018–2025 · $776k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    one grant, 2024 · $244k · revenue +12%
  • TM
    The MAP Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $188k
  • LI
    Loft Inc (The Loft Literary Center)
    one grant, 2020 · $103k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Tank Ltd

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…

Arts & Culture
2
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
3
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

4
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
5
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
6
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc

To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.

Arts & Culture
7
United Artist Collaborative
Arts & Culture
8
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
9
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
10
Artnoir Inc

ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…

Arts & Culture
11
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
12
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Camargo Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr14%3%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr21%28%20–35yr14%35%35–55yr10%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr21%22%20–35yr14%49%35–55yr10%13%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/174
the rest of the field
12%
5,830/49,169

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

167 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 167 of the 851 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/167
Grantees still filing
102/167
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE LOFT INC — $832,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOFT INCTHE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC — $784,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MAP FUND INC — $698,400 · Arts & CultureROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC — $664,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM — $599,500 · Arts & CultureQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART — $546,000 · Arts & Culture+68 more — $11,120,420 · Arts & Culture+68 moreCAMARGO FOUNDATION — $1,320,500 · OtherCAMARGO FOUNDATIONPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $637,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES+112 more — $8,525,656 · Other+112 morePROPEL NONPROFITS — $930,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $437,500 · PhilanthropyCouncil on Foundations Inc — $58,400 · PhilanthropyMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $776,000 · EducationCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC — $257,000 · EducationANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC — $136,250 · EducationTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $109,000 · EducationTEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $81,500 · EducationSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC — $134,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC — $183,000 · EmploymentFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC — $175,500 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$15,244,820Other$10,483,156Philanthropy$1,425,900Education$1,359,750Community Improvement$234,500Employment$183,000Civil Rights$175,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS — $930,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE LOFT INC — $832,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC — $784,500 over 6y, 10% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $776,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MAP FUND INC — $698,400 over 5y, 54% of budgetROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC — $664,000 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $637,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM — $599,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART — $546,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $444,800 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $437,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cedar Cultural Center Inc — $423,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC — $393,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC — $391,500 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetNew DramatistsInc — $367,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetFIRST PEOPLES FUND — $360,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc — $314,500 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER — $307,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC — $293,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetTHE JAZZ GALLERY — $292,000 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetFRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE INC — $284,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetDANSPACE PROJECT INC — $268,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC — $257,000 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP — $248,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $244,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKUNDIMAN INC — $242,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts — $238,800 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetSOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $237,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CAMARGO FOUNDATION — $233,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetMINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS — $230,600 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetSMACK MELLON STUDIOS INC — $228,500 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTSMN INC — $228,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHEATER MU INCORPORATED — $226,300 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetCOFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC — $225,400 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD — $212,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $200,334 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPangea World Theater — $200,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC — $190,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC — $183,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetZEITGEIST — $178,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC — $175,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetST PAUL NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK — $173,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC — $172,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHighpoint Center for Printmaking — $172,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetARTS FOR ART INC — $168,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetPARTICIPANT INC — $167,200 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE FEMINIST PRESS INC — $162,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetThe Cowles Center — $161,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PROPEL NONPROFITS
  • Who funds THE LOFT INC
  • Who funds THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
  • Who funds THE MAP FUND INC
  • Who funds ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC
  • Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM
  • Who funds QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST
  • Who funds The Cedar Cultural Center Inc
  • Who funds BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC
  • Who funds MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds New DramatistsInc
  • Who funds FIRST PEOPLES FUND
  • Who funds The Laundromat Project Inc
  • Who funds THE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC
  • Who funds THE JAZZ GALLERY
  • Who funds FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE INC
  • Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art
  • Who funds KUNDIMAN INC
  • Who funds The Bronx Museum of the Arts
  • Who funds SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC
  • Who funds THE CAMARGO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS
  • Who funds SMACK MELLON STUDIOS INC
  • Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTSMN INC
  • Who funds THEATER MU INCORPORATED
  • Who funds COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC
  • Who funds THE POETRY PROJECT LTD
  • Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
  • Who funds Pangea World Theater

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jerome Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 851 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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