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The Quincy Jones Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$88kArts & Culture$77kHuman Services$75kInternational$52kPhilanthropy$30kSocial Science$10kHealth$400
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$214k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE$4,300
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PBS SOCAL: $30k → 10%THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE CARE VISITING: $400 → 14%ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $26k → 17%TURNAROUND ARTS: $5k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION: $58k → 9%THE MARSHALL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%QUINCY JONES ELEMENTARY: $5k → 14%ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $21k → 17%THELONIOUS MONK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ: $10k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNVERSITY: $25k → 14%ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $4k → 17%THE SYNERGOUS INTITUTE: $500 → 17%JAZZ FOUNDATION: $62k → 17%JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $30k → 17%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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAZZ FOUNDATION: $62,333 · OtherJAZZ FOUNDATIONPBS SOCAL: $30,000 · OtherPBS SOCALIndividual grant recipient: $21,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUJA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherUJA FOUNDATIONTHE MARSHALL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherTHE MARSHALL UNIVERSITYTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE+5 more: $13,400 · Other+5 moreAlliance for Education: $58,068 · EducationAlliance for EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $51,348 · PhilanthropyARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTI…Jazz Foundation of America Inc: $29,980 · PhilanthropyJazz Foundation of America …HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $500 · International
Other$157,233Education$83,068Philanthropy$81,328Arts & Culture$10,000International$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlliance for Education: $58,068 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $51,348 over 3y, 59% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $29,980 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Alliance for Education ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ ↗
  • Who funds THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 17 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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