How much does The Jazzbird Foundation give?

The Jazzbird Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,587,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Jazzbird Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Education (28%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are The Jazzbird Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($4.2M), Roundup River Ranch ($1.8M), Music Serving the Word Ministries ($1.3M).

Does The Jazzbird Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Jazzbird Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Jazzbird Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is The Jazzbird Foundation based?

The Jazzbird Foundation is based in AZ.

The Jazzbird Foundation

The Jazzbird Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Jazzbird Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$553k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$5.8MEducation$4.6MArts & Culture$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.8MInternational$565kHealth$361kHuman Services$180kCrime & Legal$90kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $14k
$10k–50k14 grants · $294k
$50k–250k7 grants · $726k
$250k+1 grant · $553k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$535k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$553,000
ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH	$200,000
JUAN CARLOS ORTIZ MINISTRIES	$112,000
JAZZ IN ARIZONA	$90,000
CROSSGRAIN	$84,000
Individual grant recipient	$80,000
PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION	$80,000
LUIS PALAU EVANGELISTIC ASSOC	$80,000
MAJESTY FOUNDATION	$48,000
MINDEN OPERA HOUSE	$40,000
GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES FOUNDATION	$32,000
YOUNG SOUNDS OF ARIZONA	$20,000
CHANGING LIVES CENTER	$20,000
SPIRIT IN THE DESERT	$20,000
MAYO CLINIC	$20,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$16M · 38 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$125k

Still filing today

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

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

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +196%
RR
ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +73%
MS
MUSIC SERVING THE WORD MINISTRIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +201% · 77% of their budget

Funded once

G
GROSSGRAIN
one grant, 2017 · $84k
LC
LUTHERN CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION
one grant, 2017 · $40k
SO
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
one grant, 2020 · $1k

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.

Floriani

Floriani is a mens vocal ensemble dedicated to serving the church and saving the culture through the beauty of sacred music

Religion

Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education

Lutheran Theological Seminary Henry Grove

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Phoenix Seminary Inc

Phoenix seminary's mission is to train men and women for christ-centered ministry for the building of healthy churches in phoenix and the world.

Education

Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education

Arizona Opera Company

Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.

Arts & Culture

Instituto De Estudios Teologicos

Conference

Education

Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education

The Dons of Arizona

Education

Vanguard Concerts

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Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education

Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley; the most unlike its peers is Music Serving the Word Ministries. 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. 20 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/20

Grantees still filing

13/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,831,000Education$4,537,125Religion$3,349,003Recreation & Sports$1,846,000Arts & Culture$1,275,000International$280,000Food & Nutrition$18,000Human Services$10,000

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.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Jazzbird Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jazzbird Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home