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· 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.
$199k
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
1
Communities
$89k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Philanthropy$250kArts & Culture$245kHuman Services$50kHealth$30kEducation$30kCivil Rights$9kOther$45k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
collaborationpridedancepower
2021
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2022
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2023
studentsdanceculturalyouth
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $89k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Other Orgs AtBelow 5K Each$88,800
- Good Tidings Foundation$30,000
- Tierra Caliente Academy of Ar$10,000
- Banding Together$10,000
- Diversionary Theatre$10,000
- Monarch School Project$10,000
- San Diego Young Artists Music$10,000
- Tap Fever Studios$10,000
- Wheelchair Dancers Organizati$10,000
- A Step Beyond$10,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 40% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$599k · 12 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
3
Total granted
$599k
$29k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+61%
+108%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsOther
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
- OOOther Orgs Below 5K Each4× · 2021–2024 · $250k · revenue +332%
- GTGood Tidings Foundation2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue +234%
- SDSan Diego Young Artists Music3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- TTranscenDancegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +253%
- MDMalashock Dance & Cograduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +28%
- SDSan Diego Pridegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +108%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
Indian Dance Training Center
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,…
Arts & Culture
3
Marin Dance Theatre
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, professionally staged performances…
Arts & Culture
4
Francisco Martinez Dancetheatre
Dance Education and Performance
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5
San Diego Civic Dance Association Inc
To promote and support dance education in the city of San Diego
Human Services
6
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Developing and operating a major performing arts center presenting the finest in performing arts.
Arts & Culture
7
San Diego Opera Association
The mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community engagement and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as part of its…
Arts & Culture
8
Dance Palace
The Dance Palace provides programs and facilities that cultivate a thriving and inclusive community, in which arts and culture are accessible, celebrated, and integral to everyday life in West Marin.
Arts & Culture
9
Sarasota Contemporary Dance Inc
Our mission is to bring cutting edge dance of the highest caliber to the community through performance, education and collaboration.
Arts & Culture
10
Sacramento Region Performing Arts
Build community, inspire a love of the performing arts and enrich lives through music.
Arts & Culture
11
Limitless Performing Arts
Performing Arts education
Arts & Culture
12
Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre
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.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Malashock Dance & Company 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.
05the grantee network
16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$249,569Arts & Culture$244,500Human Services$50,000Other$45,000Health$30,000Education$30,000Civil Rights$9,000
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 Other Orgs Below 5K Each ↗
- Who funds School of the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds Good Tidings Foundation ↗
- Who funds San Diego Young Artists Music ↗
- Who funds Good Tidings Foundation ↗
- Who funds Banding Together ↗
- Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
- Who funds Tap Fever Studios ↗
- Who funds Monarch School Project ↗
- Who funds Wheelchair Dancers Organizati ↗
- Who funds Diversionary Theatre ↗
- Who funds Tierra Caliente Academy of Ar ↗
- Who funds A Reason to Survive ↗
- Who funds TranscenDance ↗
- Who funds Malashock Dance & Co ↗
- Who funds San Diego Pride ↗
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.
The San Diego FoundationCA27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Pratt Memorial Fund · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Other Orgs Below 5K Each.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~50 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 820691460 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Other Orgs Below 5K Each, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 50 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Jason Mraz Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Jason Mraz Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines