· Private foundation
The Rocking Jt Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERA SOUTHWEST | $53,300 |
| LANDMARK MUSICALS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,297 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWDHIP OF CHAPLAI | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,900 |
| ALB OPERA GUILD OF SFO | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,345 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $1,245 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +335% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSOpera Southwest5× · 2020–2024 · $290k · revenue +81%
- LMLANDMARK MUSICALS3× · 2021–2024 · $29k · revenue +346%
- MTMUSICAL THEATER SOUTHWEST2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +335%
Funded once
- CCCALVARY CHURCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $20k
- PAPUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2022 · $10k
- ESEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +143%
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.
The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.
To provide world class musical programming and orchestral performances to Roswell and the region through an annual concert season and music education programs for youth.
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
Santa fe pro musica brings together outstanding musicians to inspire and educate audiences of all ages through the performance of great music.
To present world-renowned musicians with a commitment to artisitic excellence to delight and educate the border region with chamber music.
Our Mission is to inspire and engage the youth of Northern New Mexico's multicultural communities through excellent music education, the guidance of music professionals, and performance opportunities from small ensemble to full orchestra…
Inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theater, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts.
Opera Parallle presents compelling performances of contemporary operas with high musical and dramatic standards, embracing modern aesthetics, creative use of technology, and social relevance as essential to the future of the art form.…
Music theatre wichita advances the musical theatre art form by educating and nurturing creators, artists and audiences, primarily through the production of broadway-caliber shows.
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.
Enhance the cultural arts community through dance performance company and dance academy.
The mission of Metropolitan Youth Symphony is to educate, develop, and promote young musicians.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 Opera Southwest ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK MUSICALS ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds EXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC ↗
- Who funds PROPEL NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds COURAGE COALITION ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATER SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds RACE TO ERASE MS ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE YOUTH SYMPHONY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Bellas Mentoring Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Vintage Albuquerque Fine Wine & Art Auction · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rocking Jt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rocking Jt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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