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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$636kYouth Development$60kHealth$50kEducation$20kCivil Rights$9k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Other Orgs AtBelow 5K Each$66,500
PASACAT Philippine Performing$10,000
Culture Schock Dance Troupe$10,000
Art of Elan$10,000
Arms Wide Open$10,000
San Diego Young Artists Music$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Good Tidings Foundation: $30k → 7%Wheelchair Dancers Organizati: $10k → 11%Wheelchair Dancers Organizati: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$676k · 12 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$676k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+101%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SO
    School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community
    3× · 2020–2022 · $102k · revenue +137%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue +136%
  • BT
    BANDING TOGETHER
    3× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • GT
    GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • MD
    MALASHOCK DANCE & COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +56%
  • TY
    transcenDANCE Youth Arts Projectgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +101%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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, (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

Arts & Culture
4
Pony Box Dance Theater

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center

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,…

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Francisco Martinez Dancetheatre

Dance Education and Performance

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8
San Diego Civic Dance Association Inc

To promote and support dance education in the city of San Diego

Human Services
9
Encanto Arts
Arts & Culture
10
Taranada

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…

Arts & Culture
11
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Bala Music and Dance Association L Williams
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is TranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jason Mraz Foundation: $316,069 · PhilanthropyJason Mraz FoundationSchool of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community: $102,000 · Arts & CultureSchool of the Performing Arts in the Richmo…SAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEMDIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INCTIERRA CALIENTE ACADEMY OF ARTS: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTIERRA CALIENTE ACADEMY OF ARTSA Step Beyond: $20,000 · Arts & CultureA Step BeyondTap Fever Studios: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTap Fever StudiosA Reason To Survive: $17,500 · Arts & CultureA Reason To SurvivePASACAT INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureART OF ELAN: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMALASHOCK DANCE & COMPANY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureArms Wide Open Corporation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCulture Shock Dance Troupe Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesWHEELCHAIR DANCERS ORGANIZATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC: $45,000 · OtherBANDING TOGETHER: $30,000 · HealthMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $20,000 · EducationtranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project: $10,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER PRIDE INC: $9,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$316,069Arts & Culture$294,500Human Services$50,000Other$45,000Health$30,000Education$30,000Civil Rights$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJason Mraz Foundation: $316,069 over 5y, 57% of budgetSchool of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community: $102,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC: $45,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM: $45,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetGOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBANDING TOGETHER: $30,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetDIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIERRA CALIENTE ACADEMY OF ARTS: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetA Step Beyond: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTap Fever Studios: $20,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWHEELCHAIR DANCERS ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetA Reason To Survive: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetART OF ELAN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMALASHOCK DANCE & COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgettranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER PRIDE INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Conrad Prebys Fou…The San Diego Foundat…The Parker FoundationJewish Community Foun…Pratt Memorial FundSempra FoundationThe William Hall Tipp…Boys and Girls Aid So…Samuel I & John Henry…The Clare Rose Founda…The Thomas C Ackerman…Art Pratt Foundation …
The Conrad Prebys FoundationCA32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jason Mraz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jason Mraz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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