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CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA

CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,312 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($125,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$352k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$440k
Net assets
$402k
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Cleveland Jazz Orchestra does

Mission

The mission of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra is to increase awareness and appreciation of jazz by engaging the community with original music, exceptional performances, and inspirational educational programming.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Live performances: the Cleveland Jazz Orchestras season series promotes jazz in its historical and contemporary forms through concerts featuring a stellar lineup of jazz luminaries, arrangers, composers and educators. It also performs for a number of cjo in the city concerts at music halls, summer festivals, places of worship, and in theaters.

    $250,655 spent$109,843 earned by the program
    89% of program spending
  2. Educational outreach: most of Cleveland Jazz Orchestras performers are master educators who work regularly with students from public and private middle and high schools. Programs include hollys high notes, an instrument donation program, and a school residency program.

    $30,325 spent$38,555 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $280,980.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($306k) Expenses 100 ($415k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2018 Revenue 86 ($262k) Expenses 54 ($224k) Net assets 792 ($43k)2019 Revenue 94 ($288k) Expenses 55 ($227k) Net assets 1919 ($103k)2020 Revenue 89 ($274k) Expenses 41 ($171k) Net assets 3829 ($206k)2021 Revenue 50 ($152k) Expenses 31 ($128k) Net assets 4275 ($230k)2022 Revenue 83 ($252k) Expenses 59 ($243k) Net assets 4455 ($240k)2023 Revenue 96 ($295k) Expenses 79 ($327k) Net assets 7682 ($414k)2024 Revenue 115 ($351k) Expenses 98 ($406k) Net assets 7001 ($377k)2025 Revenue 115 ($352k) Expenses 86 ($358k) Net assets 7458 ($402k)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (86)Net assets (7458)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $262k to $415k (+59%).

$58k
$52k
$127k
$231k
$240k
$262k
$415k
$409k
$429k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2018 19% · 2019 16% · 2020 13% · 2021 52% · 2022 53% · 2023 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$109k
’17
$37k
’18
$61k
’19
$103k
’20
$24k
’21
$10k
’22
−$32k
’23
−$54k
’24
−$7k
’25
8.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Scott Garlock

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed17121391213212015
Joined·+5+2+3+5+6+8+0+3
No longer listed·101725018
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $48k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA’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

CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

28%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 62% · 2019 67% · 2020 65% · 2021 59% · 2022 33% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

33% of CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

100% of CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve8.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA

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 Ohio

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 16%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA?
CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,312 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($125,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $440,312 in grants to CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA?
THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing