California · 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.
- $117k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $66,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Jason Mraz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $117k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $199k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $94k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $157k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $109k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $99k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Mraz Foundation | $316,069 | 5 | 57% |
| School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community | $102,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Center for World Music | $45,000 | 2 | 9% |
| San Diego Young Artist Music Academ | $45,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Good Tidings Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Banding Together | $30,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Diversionary Theatre Productions Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Monarch School Project | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tierra Caliente Academy of Arts | $20,000 | 2 | 10% |
| A Step Beyond | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Mraz Foundation | $316,069 | 5 | 57% |
| School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community | $102,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Center for World Music | $45,000 | 2 | 9% |
| San Diego Young Artist Music Academ | $45,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Good Tidings Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Banding Together | $30,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Diversionary Theatre Productions Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Monarch School Project | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tierra Caliente Academy of Arts | $20,000 | 2 | 10% |
| A Step Beyond | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Tap Fever Studios | $20,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Wheelchair Dancers Organization | $20,000 | 2 | 14% |
| A Reason To Survive | $17,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Pasacat Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Art of Elan | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Malashock Dance & Company | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Arms Wide Open Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Culture Shock Dance Troupe Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Jason Mraz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Jason Mraz Foundation
- How much does Jason Mraz Foundation give?
- Jason Mraz Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $116,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Jason Mraz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (82%), Youth Development (8%), Health (6%).
- Who are Jason Mraz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jason Mraz Foundation ($316k), School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community ($102k), Center for World Music ($45k).
- Does Jason Mraz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jason Mraz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Conrad Prebys Foundation, The San Diego Foundation, The Parker Foundation.
- Where is Jason Mraz Foundation based?
- Jason Mraz Foundation is based in CA.
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