Saint Paul, Minnesota · EIN 416035163. Its Form 990-PF says giving is not restricted to organizations picked in advance, which is how a private foundation files that it accepts unsolicited requests. It paid $5.3M across 166 grants in 2024, a median of $25K each.
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Straight off Part XV of the return. Where the foundation left a line blank, this says so rather than guessing.
As filed on the Form 990-PF for tax year 2024, IRS filing object id 202542259349101004. Printed word for word, including the entries that only say to see a website or an attachment.
The words that come up most often across the purposes it wrote on its 2024 grants. These are the foundation's own words, not a category we assigned.
The 15 largest of the 166 grants paid in 2024, with the purpose the foundation wrote for each.
| # | Recipient | State | Amount | Purpose as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springboard for the Arts | MN | $200,000 | Support for the MN Emergency Relief Project from April 2025 to April 2027. |
| 2 | The Map Fund | NY | $187,500 | Support for the Scaffolding for Practicing Artists (SPA) program for Jerome Hill Artist Fellows. |
| 3 | Color Congress | CA | $100,000 | Support Minnesota- and New York City-based organizations in its Resilience Fund. |
| 4 | Foundation for Contemporary Arts | NY | $100,000 | Support for the Emergency Grants program assisting urgent, project-related emergencies. |
| 5 | Minneapolis College of Art and Design | MN | $100,000 | Support for visual artists in the MCAD-Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists program. |
| 6 | Minnesota Historical Society | MN | $100,000 | Support for archival integration and digitization and expanded access to the Jerome Hill collection. |
| 7 | American Composers Forum | MN | $87,500 | Support for composers in the ACF | Create program. |
| 8 | Loft Inc | MN | $87,500 | Support for literary artists in the Mentor Series program. |
| 9 | Playwrights' Center | MN | $87,500 | Support for playwrights in the Jerome Fellowship, Many Voices Fellowship, and Many Voices Mentorship programs. |
| 10 | Queens Museum | NY | $87,000 | Support for visual artists in the QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists program. |
| 11 | The Cedar Cultural Center | MN | $80,000 | Support for performing artists and composers in the Cedar Commissions program. |
| 12 | Roulette Intermedium | NY | $65,000 | Support for composers in the Commissions and Residencies Program. |
| 13 | First Peoples Fund | SD | $60,000 | Support for grants and professional development opportunities for early career artists. |
| 14 | Movement Research | NY | $51,000 | Support for the Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program. |
| 15 | Brooklyn Arts Exchange | NY | $48,000 | Support for Artist in Residence (AIR), Space Grants, EmergeNYC, and Drag Performance: Between & Beyond Gender programs. |
| Tax year | Grants | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 231 | $5.3M |
| 2021 | 178 | $4.9M |
| 2022 | 158 | $5.3M |
| 2023 | 183 | $5.5M |
| 2024 | 166 | $5.3M |
Officers, directors and trustees as filed, with the year of the return they appeared on.
Every figure on this page is that foundation's own latest filed year, which is 2022 or later. This foundation is listed because its Form 990-PF says it does not restrict giving to preselected organizations and it paid at least 5 grants totaling $100K or more that year. Latest-year grants and terms per foundation from IRS 990-PF e-file returns; the newest tax year is partial until the IRS finishes releasing it. Grants are de-duplicated on funder, year, recipient and amount, so identical repeat grants collapse into one and totals can run low. Full method.
Source: IRS Form 990-PF e-file releases (public domain). Analysis: Civly.
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