New York · Nonprofit
JAZZ WAHI INC
JAZZ WAHI INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,888 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($49,989). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Jazz Wahi Inc does
Mission
Promoting jazz performance and music education in Washington Heights, NYC. Our mission is to bring jazz music to a local audience, and to expand that audience through performances and educational opportunities in accessible neighborhood settings, inviting community members of all backgrounds to appreciate jazz as a living, breathing, evolving tradition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Washington Height Jazz Festival. Oct 31 - Nov 3. 63 musicians performing, 15 separate performances, for a total of 600 audience members in local venues. Included Jazz for Kids concert.
$13,174 spent26% of program spendingMelting Pot Jazz Series. May 30 - June 27. Five family-friendly free outdoor concerts. Total audience 1000
$4,750 spent9% of program spendingJazz WaHi New Year's Eve. Dec 31. Six free performances in neighborhood venues, including Jazz for Kids concert. Total 300 attendees.
$1,600 spent3% of program spendingThe weekly Jazz WaHi Jam session. Every Tuesday throughout 2024 (our 10th year of these jams). Jam session and performance (free). Average participation is 20 musicians and 35 audience members each week.
$8,000 spentof which $1,000 as grants15% of program spendingJazz in Bennett Park. April - October. Free, weekly outdoor performances and jam sessions in a neighborhood park. This program was started during COVID and continued because of neighborhood benefit and demand. Each week sees an average of 75 people, including many families and children, enjoying music payed by 8-10 musicians.
$5,000 spentof which $1,000 as grants10% of program spendingHappy Hour Jazz at 181 Cabrini. Every Saturday throughout 2024. Free weekly jazz performances in a neighborhood venue. Average weekly audience 25.
$9,000 spentof which $1,000 as grants17% of program spendingHappy Hour Jazz at Dutch Baby Bakery. Every Wednesday beginning September 2024. Free weekly jazz performances in a neighborhood venue. Average weekly audience 25.
$3,200 spentof which $800 as grants6% of program spendingThe Jazz WaHi Vocal Series. Monthly performances by prominent NYC jazz vocalists in a neighborhood venue. Average audience 30.
$5,400 spent10% of program spendingMedical Center Nursery School (MCNS) Jazz Festival. March 2024. In partnership with MCNS, prominent NYC jazz musicians visited the school to perform for and teach the students about jazz, culminating in an outdoor Jazz for Kids Concert in Bennett Park on May 11. About 100 people attended the concert.
$1,500 spent3% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,624.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $23k to $50k (+114%).
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.
95% of JAZZ WAHI INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Louise Rogers
Artistic Director. Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $12k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 WAHI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 WAHI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 WAHI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of JAZZ WAHI 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. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 WAHI INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JAZZ WAHI 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.
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAZZ WAHI 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 WAHI INC?
- JAZZ WAHI INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,888 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($49,989). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAZZ WAHI INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $67,888 in grants to JAZZ WAHI INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAZZ WAHI INC?
- LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAZZ WAHI 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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