New York · Nonprofit
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,795,314 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($21,566,300). 130 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 233
- Grants received
- $81M
- Net assets
- $212M
What Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of jazz at lincoln center, inc. Is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education and advocacy. Jazz at lincoln center, fosters appreciation of jazz as an art form, (continued on schedule o)... And of drama, dance, film and other musical and performing arts through live concerts, performances, shows, lectures, demonstrations, and collaborations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performance presentations:the 2024-2025 season featured performances of the jazz at lincoln center orchestra with wynton marsalis, other ensembles and guest artists at frederick p. Rose hall, home of jazz at lincoln center, inc. As well as on tour nationally and internationally.
$14,503,871 spent$11,961,763 earned by the program34% of program spendingEducation and outreach: education programming includes an annual high school band competition and festival, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children and adults, student and family concerts, a middle school and an international high school jazz academy, summer youth programs, student and education workshops, and early childhood and adult education courses, and other music educational resources.
$7,016,791 spent$948,356 earned by the program16% of program spendingFacility operations: jazz at lincoln center, inc. Operates frederick p. Rose hall, a performance, education and broadcasting facility devoted to the performing arts, including a theater of 1,200 seats, a concert hall of 500 seats, and a jazz club of 140 seats, rehearsal studios, classrooms and broadcast facilities.
$18,390,840 spent$7,204,234 earned by the program43% of program spendingMedia and other programs: media and other programs including jazz congress, an annual conference designed to bring together artists, media and industry leaders in the global jazz community to exchange ideas in order to nurture and grow the jazz community, blue engine records which produces and distributes jazz at lincoln center's recordings, and "jazz live!" a video streaming service recording and distributing videos of jazz at lincoln center's
$2,798,391 spent$1,563,243 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,709,893.
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 2020 to 2021, from $223M to $256M (+15%).
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 3% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 15% · 2021 5% · 2022 23% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 64 funders to 81 funders, grant income fell $6.7M → $4.2M.
20 of 233 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.9M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 233 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 LINCOLN CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 54%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 LINCOLN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 37% · 2019 30% · 2020 24% · 2021 70% · 2022 37% · 2023 12% — 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
35% of JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
73% of JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 LINCOLN CENTER INC's revenue grew 18% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $433k on record — $400k federal, $33k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$380k
- Department of State$20k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$33k
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 AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC?
- JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,795,314 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($21,566,300). 130 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 233 organizations giving $80,795,314 in grants to JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC, 130 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $21,566,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 233 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