Illinois · Nonprofit
Jazz Institute of Chicago
Jazz Institute of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,136,854 to it, the largest being IFF ($635,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $160k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $-44210
What Jazz Institute of Chicago does
Mission
To preserve and perpetuate jazz music performance, education and culture in all its forms
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Jazz City-a program to bring music instruction, mentoring and workshops to Chicago Public School students. History of the music, how to listen, development of jazz vocabulary for young learners
$9,410 spent$9,000 earned by the program4% of program spendingEducation programs
$46,616 spent$20,315 earned by the program20% of program spendingOther
$178,735 spent$2,812 earned by the program76% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $234,761.
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 $449k to $1.0M (+127%).
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 1% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 17% · 2022 6% · 2023 10% · 2024 5% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
119% of Jazz Institute of Chicago’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Chief executive
Heather Robinson
Exec director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $151k → $326k.
5 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Institute of Chicago’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 Institute of Chicago has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
28% 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 Institute of Chicago.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 30% · 2019 64% · 2020 21% · 2021 54% · 2022 20% · 2023 15% — 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
55% of Jazz Institute of Chicago'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
70% of Jazz Institute of Chicago's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 Institute of Chicago's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Jazz Institute of Chicago receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$68k
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 Institute of Chicago
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Institute of Chicago: 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 Institute of Chicago?
- Jazz Institute of Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,136,854 to it, the largest being IFF ($635,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jazz Institute of Chicago have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,136,854 in grants to Jazz Institute of Chicago, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jazz Institute of Chicago?
- IFF is the largest funder on record, with $635,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jazz Institute of Chicago find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 38 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