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JAZZ ST LOUIS

JAZZ ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,074,952 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($4,260,975). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
55
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$5.1M
40/55 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Jazz St Louis does

Mission

Jazz St Louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Jazz concert programs

    $1,799,174 spent$1,030,932 earned by the program
    70% of program spending
  2. Educational outreach

    $771,075 spent
    30% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,570,249.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($6.7M)2018 Revenue 113 ($3.5M) Expenses 111 ($3.6M) Net assets 95 ($6.3M)2019 Revenue 128 ($4.0M) Expenses 120 ($3.9M) Net assets 96 ($6.4M)2020 Revenue 92 ($2.9M) Expenses 91 ($2.9M) Net assets 88 ($5.9M)2021 Revenue 67 ($2.1M) Expenses 62 ($2.0M) Net assets 99 ($6.6M)2022 Revenue 115 ($3.6M) Expenses 104 ($3.3M) Net assets 102 ($6.8M)2023 Revenue 92 ($2.9M) Expenses 109 ($3.5M) Net assets 92 ($6.2M)2024 Revenue 103 ($3.2M) Expenses 120 ($3.8M) Net assets 83 ($5.6M)2025 Revenue 110 ($3.4M) Expenses 119 ($3.8M) Net assets 77 ($5.1M)
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Revenue (110)Expenses (119)Net assets (77)Peer revenue range

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 $12M to $7.2M (−39%).

$13M
$13M
$12M
$12M
$7.2M
$7.4M
$6.6M
$6.1M
$5.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 11% · 2022 34% · 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

69% of JAZZ ST LOUIS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$84k
’17
−$19k
’18
$152k
’19
−$30k
’20
$113k
’21
$258k
’22
−$642k
’23
−$635k
’24
−$382k
’25
0.6
months of
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

Victor Louis Goines

President & CEO

Board chair

Robert Steward

Board chair, general couns

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed252326282828291312
Joined·+4+3+6+0+5+1+0+3
No longer listed·604050164
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.5M.

8 of 55 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 ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 ST LOUIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

66% 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 ST LOUIS.

33%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 38% · 2019 31% · 2020 37% · 2021 43% · 2022 27% · 2023 41% — 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

49% of JAZZ ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of JAZZ ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

MN
IL
NY
IN
CA
MO
KS
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $834k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JAZZ ST LOUIS receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $13M to it.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding JAZZ ST LOUIS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $139k on record.

Federal$139k
grants $139kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$139k

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 ST LOUIS

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 21%Fundraising 12%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds JAZZ ST LOUIS?
JAZZ ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,074,952 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($4,260,975). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JAZZ ST LOUIS have?
IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $13,074,952 in grants to JAZZ ST LOUIS, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JAZZ ST LOUIS?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,260,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JAZZ ST LOUIS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 55 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