How much did Jerome Foundation Inc grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of Jerome Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

travel studytheater artistsartists mediamembershipadminstration professionalfellowship recipientscareer visual

2020

fellowship activitiesactivities mediacovidactivities danceactivities literaturetravel studytheater artists

2021

finalists hillartist fellowshipsalternates finalistsfellowships dancefellowships musicfellowships visualfellowships media

2022

media filmfinalists nyccareer filmmakeralternates finalistsfinalists filmdigital productionfilmmaker nyc

2023

career filmmakerfilmmaker nyccontworking earlydigital productionarts workingartists puppet

2024

two-year hillartist alternatealternate awardartist filmnyc artistdigital productioncombined artistic

2025

playwrightscommissioningmentorshipadvocacycommissionsinterdisciplinarymultidisciplinary

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 166 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $57k
$10k–50k143 grants · $3.8M
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$115M

Total assets

Largest grants

Springboard for the Arts$200,000
The MAP Fund$187,500
Foundation for Contemporary Arts$100,000
Color Congress$100,000
Minneapolis College of Art and Design$100,000
Minnesota Historical Society$100,000
Loft Inc$87,500
Playwrights' Center$87,500
American Composers Forum$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

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.

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

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$28M · 265 repeat orgs$9.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

265 repeat relationships — 114 still active in FY2025, 151 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

265

475

Total granted

$28M

$8.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+17%

Still filing today

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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 +276%
MC
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
5× · 2018–2025 · $776k · revenue +24%
TM
The MAP Fund Inc
5× · 2019–2025 · $698k · revenue +10592% · 54% of their budget

Funded once

TM
The Museum of Modern Art
one grant, 2024 · $244k · revenue -16%
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.

McColl Center for Art Innovation

We champion contemporary artists and spark creative experiences for positive community impact.

Arts & Culture

International Contemporary Art

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture

Contemporary Arts Center

To provide public access to contemporary art. The Contemporary Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the arts of our time.

Arts & Culture

New Performance Traditions

New Performance Traditions incubates multidisciplinary projects from conception to production through performance & recording. Through creating risk-taking performances and supporting their creators, NPT engenders a more equitable,…

Arts & Culture

Contemporary American Theater Festival

Theater and other contemporary arts

Arts & Culture

Central Minnesota Arts Board

Fund local arts programs

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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

Museum of Contemporary Art

Please see mission statement on form 990, page 2, part iii, line 1.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Contemporary Art

Enhance appreciation of contemporary art through education, programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles Performance Practice

The organization supports the production and presentation of contemporary theater and dance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. We create opportunities for artists to develop their projects…

Arts & Culture

New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Minnesota Historical Society. 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 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/147

the rest of the field

10%

5,009/49,196

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.

05the grantee network

145 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

144/145

Grantees still filing

104/145

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$21,903,496Arts & Culture$12,962,920Philanthropy$1,426,700Education$1,137,000Community Improvement$209,500Civil Rights$175,500Employment$96,000

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

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.

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 FoundationMN102.1× affinity55 shared granteesties to 10 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 · The Ford Foundation · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · Target Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Minneapolis Foundation · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · The Hyde and Watson Foundation

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 organisation 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The MAP Fund Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 106.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 812547838 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on The MAP Fund Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Jerome Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Jerome Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Jerome Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

145 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jerome Foundation Inc?

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Jerome Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

145 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jerome Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph