Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION
BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being ELLIS L PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Boston Jazz Foundation does
Mission
Arts & culture
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Charles river jazz festival: provides free concert series to the local communitywhile engaging artists and providing cultural programming.
$43,282 spentof which $10,428 as grants48% of program spendingJAZZ SQUARE COALITION: Supported by the Mayors Office of Arts and Culture, Jazz Square is a collaboration between the Claremont Neighborhood Association, Boston Jazz Foundation, The Reckonings Project, Wallys Jazz Cafe, and Jazz Boston. Jazz Square Coalition celebrates the rich history of jazz in Boston, bringing new life to the area between Mass Ave and Columbus Ave, which was once a vibrant hub for music, art, and culture.
$2,682 spent3% of program spendingBjf presents! Concert series: provide opportunities for musicians andother artists to perform and shose their art forms. This seriesis free to the public
$43,282 spent48% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,246.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $91k to $46k (−49%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
56% of BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION's revenue fell 31% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$14k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION?
- BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being ELLIS L PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,000 in grants to BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION?
- ELLIS L PHILLIPS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON JAZZ FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing