· Private foundation
John Stites Jazz Artist Organization
The jsjao is a charitable organization which funds advanced studies for jazz musicians and concerts, competitions, and projects that expand jazz audiences and the appreciation of jazz in the community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
| KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALTI | $25,000 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $21,127 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,171 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,416 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,072 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,496 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,725 |
| KEEGAN MARSHALL-HOUSE | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,513 |
| JAZZ EDUCATION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,165 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,485 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2022–2023 · $240k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $211k
- KNKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION3× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue -77%
Funded once
- ACALLEN CHAPEL AME CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $25k
- ENEDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +123%
IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +172%
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.
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.
To produce and maintain world class jazz performances in downtown Toledo coupled with advanced educational programs to develop long term interest understanding and audience growth in jazz as Americas original art form within and around the…
Promote jazz music through free concerts and individual concerts. money is raised through fundraisers to pay for expenes relating to the festival.
The sound wall music initiative is dedicated to promoting and celebrating the art of music in the auburn/opelika area. we strive to enhance our community through life performances support for music education and artist development.
Jazz Central Studios is dedicated to preserving the innovative jazz arts in the Twin Cities. We present live music to the community in a non-commercial listening environment and encourage collaboration and education among musicians of wide…
Summer classical music festival
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds South Side Jazz Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
- Who funds CITYMUSIC CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ INSPIRED INC ↗
- Who funds TUBA BACH INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JazzBoston Inc ↗
- Who funds Foundry Hall ↗
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: Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Stucki Family Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Stites Jazz Artist Organization funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Stites Jazz Artist Organization. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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