Georgia · Nonprofit
Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc
Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,647,975 to it, the largest being CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($630,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $945k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Jessye Norman School of the Arts is to develop students to become creative, caring, visionary, responsible citizens through the transformative power of the arts. The broad-ranged fine arts program challenges students academically, integrates technology and lays the foundation for extraordinary life experiences. The Jessye Norman school of the arts is an after school program designed to develop and nurture the artistic and creative talents of students. The school of the arts serves the cultural and educational needs of these traditionally under-serve youth by providing: free fine arts instruction, academic tutoring, an opportunity for advance level study in dance, drama, music, art and creative writing and exposure to professionals working within the arts fields.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Jessye Norman School of the Arts (JNSA) is an after-school and summer program that provides middle and high school students with an opportunity for concentrated study of the fine arts. The mission of the JNSA is to provide professional quality fine arts instruction for gifted and talented children who are economically challenged. The school opened in September 2003. Children audition to attend the school, and there is no tuition charged. The school is supported by an active advisory board from the community, a parent group which involves parents with the school, and a friends group which provides support and fundraising. The Jessye Norman School actively engages more than 500 people in positive academic and arts enrichment outcomes for children.
$561,339 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $561,339.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.7M to $1.9M (+10%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 15% · 2023 48% · 2024 43% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $92k → $119k.
3 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 77% · 2019 60% · 2020 50% · 2021 47% · 2022 22% · 2023 24% — 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
33% of Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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
90% of Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $165k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$165k
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 Jessye Norman School of the Arts 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% 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 Jessye Norman School of the Arts 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 Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc?
- Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,647,975 to it, the largest being CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($630,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,647,975 in grants to Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc?
- CHESTNUT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $630,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 27 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