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Jerome Foundation Inc at a glance

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Jerome Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.5M
Granted FY2026still arriving
157
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2026 · 157 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k10 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k129 grants · $3.5M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $375k
$27,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$129M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The MAP Fund$375,000
Minnesota Museum of American Art$200,000
Literary Arts Fund (fiscal sponsor National Center for Civic Innovation)$200,000
Minneapolis College of Art and Design$105,000
Cave Canem Foundation Inc$100,000
American Composers Forum$92,500
Playwrights Center$92,500
The Loft Literary Center$92,500
Pillsbury House Theatre (Pillsbury United Communities)$92,500
Queens Museum$92,000
Roulette Intermedium$70,000
Movement Research Inc$56,000
The Camargo Foundation$54,000
Brooklyn Arts Exchange$53,000
Cave Canem Foundation Inc$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY25–26, $50k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Haiti Cultural Exchange: $28k → 20%Haiti Cultural Exchange: $23k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
SD
OH
PA
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
HI
LA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 310 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

310 repeat relationships: 92 still active in FY2026, 218 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

310
538

Total granted

$36M
$9.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+29%

Still filing today

42%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PN
    PROPEL NONPROFITS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $930k · revenue +176%
  • TL
    THE LOFT INC
    6× · 2017–2026 · $925k · revenue +7%
  • MC
    MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    6× · 2018–2026 · $881k · 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

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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
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

171 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 171 of the 913 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
168/171
Grantees still filing
103/171
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MAP FUND INC: $1,073,400 · Arts & CultureTHE MAP FUND INCTHE LOFT INC: $924,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC: $877,000 · Arts & CultureROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $734,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $692,000 · Arts & CultureQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $638,000 · Arts & Culture+81 more: $13,385,920 · Arts & Culture+81 moreCAMARGO FOUNDATION: $1,374,500 · OtherCAMARGO FOUNDATIONPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $637,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES+99 more: $8,506,156 · Other+99 moreMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $881,000 · EducationCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC: $407,000 · EducationANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC: $168,250 · EducationTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $109,000 · EducationTEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $81,500 · EducationPROPEL NONPROFITS: $930,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $437,500 · PhilanthropyCouncil on Foundations Inc: $58,400 · PhilanthropySOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $134,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC: $224,000 · Civil RightsTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $219,000 · Employment
Arts & Culture$18,324,820Other$10,517,656Education$1,646,750Philanthropy$1,425,900Community Improvement$234,500Civil Rights$224,000Employment$219,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MAP FUND INC: $1,073,400 over 6y, 54% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS: $930,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE LOFT INC: $924,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $881,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC: $877,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC: $734,000 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $692,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $638,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $637,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $482,300 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $447,500 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $446,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $437,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cedar Cultural Center Inc: $428,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC: $407,000 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetNew DramatistsInc: $367,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc: $364,500 over 10y, 2.1% of budgetFIRST PEOPLES FUND: $360,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER: $352,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC: $343,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetFRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE INC: $328,000 over 9y, 25% of budgetTHE JAZZ GALLERY: $327,000 over 10y, 5.7% of budgetDANSPACE PROJECT INC: $305,500 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $293,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts: $278,800 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $275,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetMINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS: $264,600 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetSMACK MELLON STUDIOS INC: $261,000 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $247,000 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $244,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKUNDIMAN INC: $242,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $238,334 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPangea World Theater: $235,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetTHE CAMARGO FOUNDATION: $233,500 over 4y, 4.9% 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 budgetHARLEM STAGE INC: $225,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC: $224,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $219,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetST PAUL NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $210,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetZEITGEIST: $207,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetHighpoint Center for Printmaking: $201,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetRED EYE COLLABORATION: $195,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetTHE FEMINIST PRESS INC: $192,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetNative American Community Development Institute: $182,750 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetMUSICAL THEATRE FACTORY INC: $180,000 over 6y, 13% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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

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 Foundati…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Howard Gilman Fou…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…The Ford FoundationBooth Ferris Foundati…Doris Duke Charitable…Target FoundationThe Fan Fox and Lesli…New England Foundatio…The Shubert Foundatio…Mid Atlantic Arts Inc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jerome Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 913 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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