Nevada · Nonprofit
MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC
MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5
- Net assets
- $44k
What Mile High Jazz Band Association Inc does
Mission
The MHJB Association promotes live jazz performances, more than 25 per year, in and around Carson City; educates the public about jazz; and enriches the cultural life of the community. The Assoc. supports the MHJB, an 18-piece big band+vocalist, and its affiliated jazz combos. It produces a multi-day, admission-free jazz festival, assists school music programs, presents workshops for student musicians, plays benefits for other charitable organizations, and holds four Jazz & Poetry events annually.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mile High Jazz Band and its combos held about 20 performances, including Jazz & Poetry events, attended by from 50 to more than 300 each, and performed with the Carson High School Jazz Band, Carson Middle School Jazz Band, and Reno Youth Jazz Orchestra to help them raise funds for school music programs. MHJB Association sponsored an art contest for Carson-Tahoe area artists and co-produced an 11-day jazz festival in August attended by more than 3,000 people.
$48,395 spentof which $29,658 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,395.
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 $47k to $72k (+52%).
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.
87% of MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION 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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC's revenue fell 19% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC
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In Nevada
Nationally
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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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Questions and answers
- Who funds MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC?
- MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5 in grants to MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILE HIGH JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 1 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