Colorado · Nonprofit
JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS
JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS (Colorado) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,457,372 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($3,616,100). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 127
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass does
Mission
The mission of jazz aspen snowmass is to present and preserve jazz and related forms of music through world-class festivals, performances and education programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Festivals and performaces include the jas cafe series, june experience and labor day experience. The jas cafe hosted 11 nights of performances over the winter and summer series. In a takeover of downtown aspen, the jas june experience featured over 40 performances across 12 different venues. The jas labor day experience attracted 27,963 attendees for the annual 3 day music festival in snowmass, co. Along with performances, the jas cafe series offers music education including, the 'listen up! Pre-show', a live artist interview giving audiences insights into the performer's musical experiences and background, and the "jas cafe corner", which highlights the history of jazz music with a blog and other program additions.
$12,826,729 spent$4,180,855 earned by the program92% of program spendingThe jas academy hosted 46 competitively selected students from the top music schools in the united states over two sessions focused on either big band or afro-caribbean big band. Selected students work with faculty from the frost school of music at the university of miami, as well as visiting professional jazz musicians. The program focuses on identifying and assisting the most talented student artists embracing jazz fundamentally while exploring myriad related and unrelated forms of music at the highest level of quality. The curriculum also features instruction on the business of music, giving students valuable insights into the career path of a professional musician. The jas academy is a full scholarship program supported annually by a multi-year gift from ed and sasha bass.
$555,362 spent4% of program spendingLocal education initiatives provided over $255,000 in support to local public middle and high schools, reaching 15 schools and over 1,500 students. This included support for jas's newest education program, the jas street horns, designed for advanced middle and high school students based on the western slope interested in a high-level band experience. Students study and perform with other advanced students at a level they are unlikely to receive in a school setting. The group meets monthly throughout the year for a rehearsal and various performances, working with local musicians, as well as professional musicians traveling to the area to perform for jas. This year long commitment includes an exciting and educational spring break trip to new orleans! All expenses for street horn participation, including the trip, are covered by jas.
$539,193 spentof which $42,412 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,921,284.
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 2023 to 2024, from $18M to $35M (+96%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
James Horowitz
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $605k → $2.7M.
37 of 127 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 127 funders by total. 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 AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
61% 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 AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 19% · 2019 31% · 2020 15% · 2021 33% · 2022 19% · 2023 38% — 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
35% of JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
60% of JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8.6M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 22 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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 AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: 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 AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS?
- JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS (Colorado) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,457,372 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($3,616,100). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS have?
- IRS filings report 127 organizations giving $21,457,372 in grants to JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS?
- AMERICAN GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,616,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 127 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