General Program Grant

The Jerome Foundation, offers grants to not-for-profit arts organizations and to fiscal sponsors applying on behalf of artists for the creation, development, and production of new works by emerging artists in New York City and Minnesota.

Values

The Jerome Foundation places support for the creative artist at the center of its grantmaking and gives funding priority to programs and projects that are artist-driven.

The Foundation promotes artistic excellence, affirms that excellence is determined by a broad and diverse range of aesthetic criteria, and seeks quality or the potential for quality in each grant it makes.

The Foundation welcomes the opportunity to be pushed beyond its own boundaries of understanding and experience, and seeks to be open and inclusive. It affirms that the Foundation’s Board members, staff, and grants programs shall be consistent with the pluralistic society in which the Foundation operates.

Jerome Foundation upholds the right to freedom of expression; searches for new ideas, individuals, and organizations; and encourages artistic exploration and risk-taking.