Ohio · Nonprofit
JAZZ ARTS GROUP
JAZZ ARTS GROUP (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,796,447 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($2,635,728). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $690k
What Jazz Arts Group does
Mission
To promote the awareness of jazz music through its own professional jazz repertory orchestra.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performance series: the columbus jazz orchestra (cjo) was established in 1973 and presents two subscription series for 900 season subscribers at the southern theatre and lincoln theatre. The cjo is one of the world's finest jazz orchestras and is conducted by byron stripling. Our "jazz at the lincoln" series is presented at the lincoln theatre in the king lincoln district of columbus and promotes smaller ensembles to develop new audiences for more modern music.
$864,171 spent74% of program spendingEducation -- jazz academy (jazz in the community, jazz in the schools): the jazz academy consists of two categories, community based programs and school based programs, both program categories are designed to engage children to senior citizens in the art of jazz. Live performances are conducted in central ohio schools and instructional sessions are conducted at music studios operated by jag. Jazz academy programs target economically challenged youth with in-school programs. Jazz academy programs are also designed to promote professional deveopment of public and parochial school teachers to enhance their instructional skills.
$299,374 spent26% of program spendingAffiliate musicians/outreach: part of the purpose of the Jazz Arts Group (jag) is to provide employment opportunities for the core of columbus's jazz musicians. Affiliate musicians link professional musicians with consumers for live music. The columbus jazz orchestra and other ensembles also present programs in a variety of settings throughout the state and region through this program.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,163,545.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $587k to $1.1M (+83%).
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 14% · 2018 12% · 2019 11% · 2020 13% · 2021 42% · 2022 35% · 2023 24% · 2024 24% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of JAZZ ARTS GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $386k → $662k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 JAZZ ARTS GROUP’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
JAZZ ARTS GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 JAZZ ARTS GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 50% · 2019 58% · 2020 55% · 2021 54% · 2022 54% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of JAZZ ARTS GROUP'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
98% of JAZZ ARTS GROUP's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
JAZZ ARTS GROUP's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JAZZ ARTS GROUP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 JAZZ ARTS GROUP
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 JAZZ ARTS GROUP: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JAZZ ARTS GROUP?
- JAZZ ARTS GROUP (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,796,447 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($2,635,728). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAZZ ARTS GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $4,796,447 in grants to JAZZ ARTS GROUP, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAZZ ARTS GROUP?
- GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $2,635,728 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAZZ ARTS GROUP 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 18 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