Jerome Foundation Inc

Minneapolis, MN 554027033 EIN 416035163

https://WWW.JEROMEFDN.ORG
$114.7M Total Assets (2025)
$3.2M Total Giving (2025)
274 Grants on File (2024–2025)
$31K Avg Grant Size

Focus Areas

Arts & Culture Science & Research

Application Information

Accepts Unsolicited Proposals Unknown
Contact Person Eleanor Savage
Phone 6512249431
Deadlines Guidelines and application deadlines vary by grant program and are available on the website above.
How to Apply 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.
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.

Financial Trends

Giving Over Time

Total Assets Over Time

View financial data as table
YearTotal GivingTotal AssetsRevenueGrants
2024 $3.7M $113.2M $15.4M 169
2025 $3.2M $114.7M $12.6M 105

Grant Size Distribution

Min: $656 Median: $25K Avg: $25K Max: $188K

Geographic Distribution

US Grant Distribution Map

Key Personnel

NameTitleCompensation
Eleanor Savage President & CEO $330K
Janet Wong Director
Daniel Alexander Jones Vice Chair
Richard Scott Secretary & Treasurer
Helga Davis Director
Lori Pourier Director
Sanjit Sethi Director
Sarah Bellamy Director
Thomas Lax Left Dec 2024 Director
Salome Asega Director
Kate Beane Director
Kate Barr Chair
Thomas Lax Director

Grants Awarded (274 total)

RecipientLocationAmountPurposeYear
The MAP Fund Saint Paul, MN $187,500 Support for professional development programs for Jerome Hill Artist Fellows 2024
Roshan Ganu Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Visual Arts) 2025
Hearts Productions LLC Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Film) 2025
Ogemdi Ude Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Dance) 2025
Pamela Council Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Visual Arts) 2025
Elizabeth Chatelain Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Film) 2025
Kou Records LLC Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Music) 2025
Mary Prescott Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Music) 2025
Mohammed Sheikh Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Film) 2025
Noelle Awadallah Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Dance) 2025
Jeffrey Meris Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Visual Arts) 2025
Anooj Bhandari Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Theater & Performance) 2025
Coleen Baik Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Film) 2025
Blossom Johnson Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Theater & Performance) 2025
Melanie Dyer Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Music) 2025
JuCoby Johnson Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Theater & Performance) 2025
Liana Mack Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Literature) 2025
LKTN ADL Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Literature) 2025
Mo Kong Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Visual Arts) 2025
S Erin Batiste Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Literature) 2025
Nancy Ma Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Theater & Performance) 2025
Ms Z Tye Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Dance) 2025
Amy Usdin Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Visual Arts) 2025
Asif Mian Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Visual Arts) 2025
Sam Aros-Mitchell Saint Paul, MN $60,000 Support for Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (Dance) 2025