New Jersey · Nonprofit
JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC
JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,590,469 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($418,027). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Jazz House Kids Inc does
Mission
JAZZ HOUSE KiDS transforms lives using the power and legacy of jazz through world-class education and performances that create avenues of access, learning, career development and community building.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
JAZZ HOUSE PROGRAMS: : At JAZZ HOUSE Montclair and the JAZZ HOUSE NYC satellite campus, students ages 8 to 19 from across New Jersey and New York City participate in year-round jazz ensemble and pre-college programs with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS professional teaching artists. Qualifying students receive greatly reduced, need-based tuition assistance. Begun in 2011, CHiCA Power has increased young womens representation in instrumental music ensembles to upwards of 30% to 40%, depending on the program. A free, multi-part JAZZ HOUSE Goes to College series provides guidance with the college preparation, selection and application process and includes a college fair with admissions representatives. Each year, more than 99% of high school seniors at JAZZ HOUSE Montclair go on to attend college or vocational school, with many receiving major scholarships. JAZZ HOUSE KiDS also provides extensive summer programming, including the nationally recognized JAZZ HOUSE Summer Workshop.
$3,689,876 spent69% of program spendingMONTCLAIR JAZZ FESTIVAL: Presented annually since 2010, the MONTCLAIR JAZZ FESTIVAL has grown to become New Jerseys largest, free jazz festival with more than 27,000 attendees. This no-tickets-required festival is presented at venues across Montclair and culminates with a multi-stage grand finale featuring world-renowned artists and JAZZ HOUSE KiDS talented students and alumni. The festival generates tremendous revenue for hundreds of local businesses and festival vendors.
$983,348 spent19% of program spendingIn-school programs: jazz house music scholars programs provide free, weekly in-school instruction for hundreds of middle and high school students, including students with special needs, in newark and other underresourced new jersey school districts. Students participate in small group lessons, ensemble rehearsals, school and community concerts and masterclasses.
$639,177 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,312,401.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.0M to $3.0M (+182%).
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 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 5% · 2021 20% · 2022 11% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $85k → $408k.
13 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 HOUSE KIDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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 HOUSE KIDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
34% 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 HOUSE KIDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 36% · 2019 18% · 2020 25% · 2021 20% · 2022 15% · 2023 12% — broadly stable.
“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 HOUSE KIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
59% of JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $908k 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 HOUSE KIDS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record — $360k federal, $2.4M state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$360k
- GRANT IN AID$2.2M
- FEDERAL$100k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$99k
- TRUST FUND$89k
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 HOUSE KIDS 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% 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 JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: 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 HOUSE KIDS INC?
- JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,590,469 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($418,027). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $3,590,469 in grants to JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $418,027 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 83 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