· Public charity
Jason Mraz Foundation
The Jason Mraz Foundations specific purpose is the promotion of artistic training, development and personal expression, advancing equality and empowering through arts education.Our mission is to shine for inclusive arts education and the advancement of equality and food security.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Other Orgs AtBelow 5K Each | $66,500 |
| PASACAT Philippine Performing | $10,000 |
| Culture Schock Dance Troupe | $10,000 |
| Arms Wide Open | $10,000 |
| Art of Elan | $10,000 |
| San Diego Young Artists Music | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SOSchool of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community3× · 2020–2022 · $102k · revenue +137%
- CFCENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue +136%
- BTBANDING TOGETHER3× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- GTGOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- MDMALASHOCK DANCE & COMPANYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +56%
- TYtranscenDANCE Youth Arts Projectgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +122%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Indian Dance Training Center (IDTC) is a community development organizationaimed at empowering the youth through cultural dance training of traditional SouthAsian dance styles as well as classical theater. IDTC provides trainings,…
to nurture and sustain the art, technique and expression of classical ballet and contemporary dance for students of all ages through exceptional training and education, unique and exciting choreography, (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)
Pony Box Dance Theatre is a 21st century digital dream of Homeric athleticism with Olympian execution. An artful, moving exploration of men in dance, Pony Box Dance Theater aspires to bring the joy and beauty of dance to all people.Our…
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center SADC builds and supports a vital and inclusive community for movers of all ages and styles. Founded in 1958, SADC provides dance education, institutional support for artists, a performance and rehearsal venue,…
To preserve, promote, and present the art of ballet and dance through performances, education, and community outreach, making high-quality cultural experiences accessible to diverse audiences.
Dance Education and Performance
To promote and support dance education in the city of San Diego
Taranada cultivates arts deeply rooted and reflective of diverse traditional cultures and serves the disadvantaged, institutionally marginalized, underserved and misrepresented communities of Texas and the globe while educating and raising…
To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is TranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project and the most unlike its peers is Tierra Caliente Academy of Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Jason Mraz Foundation ↗
- Who funds School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM ↗
- Who funds GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BANDING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds DIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TIERRA CALIENTE ACADEMY OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
- Who funds Tap Fever Studios ↗
- Who funds WHEELCHAIR DANCERS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds A Reason To Survive ↗
- Who funds PASACAT INC ↗
- Who funds ART OF ELAN ↗
- Who funds MALASHOCK DANCE & COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Arms Wide Open Corporation ↗
- Who funds transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project ↗
- Who funds Culture Shock Dance Troupe Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER PRIDE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Pratt Memorial Fund · Sempra Foundation · The William Hall Tippett and Ruth Rathell Tippett Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Clare Rose Foundation Inc · The Thomas C Ackerman Foundation · Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jason Mraz Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.