Ohio · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA is better cushioned than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundationshared funderslocal
- Louis Armstrong Educational Foundatportfolio match
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio match
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.
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 77 organizations that share your funders · funds 80 organizations near you
- Louis Armstrong Educational Foundatportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Matinee Musicale Endowment Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greenacres Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leonetticarlson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Symphony Orchestra League D/B/A League of American Orchestrasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Columbus Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abington Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 87 organizations that share your funders · funds 104 organizations near you
- Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 81 organizations that share your funders · funds 126 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 15funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing