Jerome Foundation Inc
Historical FunderSaint Paul, Minnesota · EIN 41-6035163 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2025)$5.5M
Organizations funded104
Typical grant$30,000
Total assets$128.9M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $27,500 and $41,000.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2025):
| Contact | Eleanor Savage |
|---|---|
| Address | 550 Vandalia Street Suite 109, Saint Paul MN 55114 |
| Phone | 6519255613 |
| esavage@jeromefdn.org | |
| Form and materials | Applications are submitted via Jerome Foundation's online application platform through Submittable. Applications must be submitted online in accordance with published deadlines, guidelines, and staff instructions. Application forms for publicly announced grant programs are accessible at www.jeromefdn.org. Invite-only applications forms are provided by links shared with applicants by staff. Applications typically require answers to narrative questions, financial information about program costs/ organizational budgets or individual budgets, alignment with review criteria (which are clearly stated and explained in the grant guidelines and include information about the program or project, the feasibility of the proposed activity(ies), and the impact that the applicant's work will have on the artist(s), their community(ies) and/or their art form(s)). Organization applicants must provide documentation of 501(c)(3) status or apply via with a fiscal sponsor that has 501(c)(3) status. |
| Deadlines | Guidelines and application deadlines vary by grant program and are available on the website above. |
| Restrictions | Jerome Foundation support is limited to artists and arts organizations based in Minnesota and New York City. The Foundation is focused on support to early career generative artists and serves multiple artistic fields. All organization and individual grant programs, excepting the Jerome@Camargo program, solicit applications through an open call as described in guidelines published for each program. Jerome@Camargo program applications are by invitation only and are limited to artists who have received prior direct support from the Jerome Foundation during the previous five years. A small additional number of grants support national arts service and philanthropic organizations for special convenings or one-time conferences, research, field-building initiatives, and ongoing services and/or activities that will be conducted in New York City or MN, that will serve, engage and impact artists, organizations and/or arts grantmakers in New York or Minnesota. |
Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
49% of grants went outside Minnesota.
Grants paid in tax year 2025
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The MAP Fund | New York, NY | Support for professional development for early career artists. | $375,000 |
| Literary Arts Fund (fiscal sponsor National Center for Civic Innovation) | New York, NY | Support for literary arts organizations. | $200,000 |
| Minnesota Museum of American Art | Saint Paul, MN | Support for capital stabilization. | $200,000 |
| Minneapolis College of Art and Design | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $105,000 |
| Cave Canem Foundation Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Support for literary arts organizations. | $100,000 |
| American Composers Forum | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in music. | $92,500 |
| Pillsbury House Theatre (Pillsbury United Communities) | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in theater. | $92,500 |
| Playwrights Center | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in theater. | $92,500 |
| The Loft Literary Center | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in literature. | $92,500 |
| Queens Museum | Flushing, NY | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $92,000 |
| Roulette Intermedium | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in music. | $70,000 |
| Movement Research Inc | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in dance. | $56,000 |
| The Camargo Foundation | Cassis, FR | Apartment fees related to Jerome@Camargo residencies. | $54,000 |
| Brooklyn Arts Exchange | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $53,000 |
| Arts Midwest Incorporated | Minneapolis, MN | Support for emergency funding for arts organizations. | $50,000 |
| Asian American Writers' Workshop | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in literature. | $50,000 |
| Cave Canem Foundation Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in literature. | $50,000 |
| The Laundromat Project | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $50,000 |
| Firelight Media | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in film. | $48,500 |
| Bronx Documentary Center | Bronx, NY | Support for early career artists in film. | $45,000 |
| More Than a Single Story | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in literature. | $45,000 |
| National Black Theatre | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in theater. | $45,000 |
| Franklin Furnace Archive Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career performance artists. | $44,000 |
| Henry Street SettlementAbrons Arts Center | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in dance. | $44,000 |
| PEPATIAN Bronx Academy of Art and Dance (BAAD) | Bronx, NY | Support for early career artists in dance. | $44,000 |
| Rattlestick Productions Inc | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in theater. | $44,000 |
| Native American Community Development InstituteAll My Relations Arts | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in literature. | $41,000 |
| Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc | New York, NY | Support for emergency funding for early career artists. | $40,000 |
| La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $40,000 |
| Public Functionary | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $40,000 |
| The Bronx Museum of the Arts | Bronx, NY | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $40,000 |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem Inc | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $38,000 |
| American Composers Orchestra | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in music. | $37,500 |
| Ananya Dance Theatre | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in dance. | $37,500 |
| Danspace Project | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in dance. | $37,500 |
| Indigenous Roots | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $37,500 |
| MOVO Space (fiscal sponsor Springboard for the Arts) | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in dance. | $37,500 |
| Musical Theatre Factory | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in theater. | $37,500 |
| Red Eye Collaboration | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $37,500 |
| Rosy Simas Danse | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in dance. | $37,500 |
| Soho Repertory Theatre Inc | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in theater. | $37,500 |
| St Paul Neighborhood Network | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in film. | $37,500 |
| Eyebeam Atelier Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in technology centered arts. | $36,000 |
| Forecast Public Art | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $35,000 |
| Harlem Stage | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $35,000 |
| Pangea World Theater | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in theater. | $35,000 |
| The Jazz Gallery | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in music. | $35,000 |
| The Poetry Project | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in literature. | $35,000 |
| Minnesota Center for Book Arts | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $34,000 |
| Smack Mellon Studios | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $32,500 |
| Threads Dance Project | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in dance. | $32,500 |
| Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Inc | Red Wing, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $32,000 |
| Art of the Rural | Winona, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $30,000 |
| Birch Films LLC | Saint Paul, MN | Support via the NYC Film Production program. | $30,000 |
| Department of Public Transformation | Granite Falls, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $30,000 |
| Ensemble New Media LLC | Saint Paul, MN | Support via the NYC Film Production program. | $30,000 |
| Exposed Brick Theatre | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in theater. | $30,000 |
| Feminist Press | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in literature. | $30,000 |
| Mam Papaya | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in film. | $30,000 |
| Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in literature. | $30,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 104 grants to organizations.
The return also lists 53 grants to individuals ($1,034,185). We do not publish the names of individual recipients.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literary Arts Fund (fiscal sponsor National Center for Civic Innovation) | New York, NY | Support for literary arts organizations. | $300,000 |
| Minneapolis College of Art and Design | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $210,000 |
| Pillsbury House TheatrePillsbury United Communities | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in theater. | $185,000 |
| Playwrights Center | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in theater. | $185,000 |
| The Loft Literary Center | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in literature. | $185,000 |
| Queens Museum of Art | Flushing, NY | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $184,000 |
| Roulette Intermedium | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in music. | $140,000 |
| Movement Research Inc | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in dance. | $112,000 |
| Brooklyn Arts Exchange | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $106,000 |
| Asian American Writers' Workshop | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in literature. | $100,000 |
| Cave Canem Foundation Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in literature. | $100,000 |
| The Laundromat Project | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $100,000 |
| Firelight Media | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in dance. | $97,000 |
| Bronx Documentary Center | Bronx, NY | Support for early career artists in film. | $90,000 |
| More Than a Single Story | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in literature. | $90,000 |
| National Black Theatre | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in theater. | $90,000 |
| The Cedar Cultural Center | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in music. | $90,000 |
| Franklin Furnace Archive Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career performance artists. | $88,000 |
| Henry Street SettlementAbrons Arts Center | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in dance. | $88,000 |
| PEPATIANBronx Academy of Arts and Dance | Bronx, NY | Support for early career artists in dance. | $88,000 |
| Native American Community Development InstituteAll My Relations Arts | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in literature. | $82,000 |
| La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $80,000 |
| Public Functionary | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $80,000 |
| The Bronx Museum of the Arts | Bronx, NY | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $80,000 |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem Inc | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $76,000 |
| American Composers Orchestra | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in music. | $75,000 |
| Ananya Dance Theatre | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in dance. | $75,000 |
| Danspace Project | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in dance. | $75,000 |
| Indigenous Roots | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $75,000 |
| MOVO Space (fiscal sponsor Springboard for the Arts) | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in dance. | $75,000 |
| Musical Theatre Factory | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in theater. | $75,000 |
| Red Eye Collaboration | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $75,000 |
| Rosy Simas Danse | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in dance. | $75,000 |
| Soho Repertory Theatre Inc | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in theater. | $75,000 |
| St Paul Neighborhood Network | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in film. | $75,000 |
| Processing Foundation Inc | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in technology centered arts. | $72,000 |
| Forecast Public Art | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $70,000 |
| Harlem Stage | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $70,000 |
| The Jazz Gallery | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in music. | $70,000 |
| The Poetry Project | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in literature. | $70,000 |
| Minnesota Center for Book Arts | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $68,000 |
| Smack Mellon Studios | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $65,000 |
| Threads Dance Project | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in dance. | $65,000 |
| Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Inc | Red Wing, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $64,000 |
| Art of the Rural | Winona, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $60,000 |
| Department of Public Transformation | Granite Falls, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $60,000 |
| Exposed Brick Theatre | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in theater. | $60,000 |
| Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in literature. | $60,000 |
| Open Channels NY Inc dba Dixon Place | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $60,000 |
| Highpoint Center for Printmaking | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in visual arts. | $58,000 |
| International Contemporary Ensemble | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in music. | $58,000 |
| Lanesboro Arts Center | Lanesboro, MN | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $58,000 |
| Monkeybears Harmolodic Workshop | Minneapolis, MN | Support for early career artists in theater. | $58,000 |
| Zeitgeist | Red Wing, MN | Support for early career artists in music. | $58,000 |
| Angela's Pulse (fiscal sponsor Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance) | Bronx, NY | Support for early career artists in dance. | $55,000 |
| AXS Lab | Long Island City, NY | Support for early career artists in film. | $55,000 |
| Black Public Media | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in film. | $55,000 |
| Culture Push | New York, NY | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $55,000 |
| Haiti Cultural Exchange | Brooklyn, NY | Support for early career artists in multiple artistic fields. | $55,000 |
| In Progress | Saint Paul, MN | Support for early career artists in film. | $55,000 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $5,494,685 | 309 |
| 2024 | $5,318,510 | 287 |
| 2023 | $5,505,607 | 344 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2025, filed Aug 19, 2026 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202642319349100514
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 41-6035163
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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