Arts
Organization
Grants
Dameun Strange, The Cedar. Photo by Pat O'Loughlin.
Two-year grants to organizations to support ongoing programs, services and activities for early career artists in Minnesota and New York City.

Benjamin Benne, Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop.
Arts Organization Grant Focus
Past arts organization grants supported a diverse range of programs across artistic disciplines, including:
- artistic or career development and/or technical assistance
- production programs, culminating in a full exhibition, publication, or production
The average grant size in the most recent round was $70,000 (divided over two years at $35,000 per year).
Arts Organization Grant Guidelines and Timeline
This program is currently scheduled for strategic review and is not open for application. An announcement of the continuation of this program and/or new initiatives will be announced after Fall 2022 but no later than Fall 2023.
In light of the COVID crisis, the Foundation chose to extend the Organizational grants awarded in January 2020 rather than open a new round of applications. In the interim, the Foundation will be focused on consortium grantmaking priorities in order to extend the financial reach and impact of our funding.

Jen Shyu, In Seoul. Photo by Ryu Ijun.
Program History
Grants in this program were first awarded in 2018. Previously, organizations would apply to the Foundation through the General Program.
In 2016, the Foundation surveyed more than 600 artists and organizations to gauge the most urgent needs and priorities of the arts field. Four specific themes emerged:
- the need for multi-year funding
- the need for flexible support
- the need to address long-term capacity development
- the value of deadlines in planning
Additionally, having set deadlines allows the Foundation and its panelists to think of the grants roster as a cohort—one that aims to represent the diversity of the field.

Bronx Documentary Center
Help and Contacts


Eleanor Savage has been with Jerome Foundation since 2007. She is active in the philanthropic and arts community as an agitator for equitable practice and involved with the national organization, Grantmakers in the Arts, as the Co-Chair of the Support for Individual Artists Committee. She is a media artist, an activist and has instigated many community-focused/artist-centered events in the Twin Cities: Naked Stages; Forbidden Fruit Radio; Vulva Riot; and Dyke Night at the Walker Art Center. She was previously the Associate Director of Event and Media Production at the Walker Art Center for sixteen years.
Eleanor's life-long commitment is promoting human rights as a guiding force and working actively as a white, gender-queer butch against racism and all the other intersecting oppressions.


Andrea Brown joined the Jerome Foundation in 2016. She came to the Jerome Foundation after five years at the Walker Art Center, where she was Associate Director of Strategic Marketing, and prior to that Associate Director of Digital Marketing and Marketing Manager. She worked in the New York office of the American Academy in Berlin before taking a 7-year detour into software at Marketing Bridge/Gage Marketing where she was Lead Account Supervisor.
Andrea has a B.A. in American Studies from Smith College.