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Nashville Jazz Workshop

Nashville Jazz Workshop (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $368,340 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($135,411). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$635k
Revenue FY2025
17
Funders on record
$368k
Grants received
$171k
Net assets
9/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

Nashville Jazz Workshop's revenue grew 32% between 2018 and 2025.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($479k) Expenses 100 ($462k) Net assets 100 ($207k)2020 Revenue 170 ($812k) Expenses 96 ($442k) Net assets 250 ($519k)2021 Revenue 112 ($537k) Expenses 119 ($550k) Net assets 266 ($550k)2022 Revenue 175 ($841k) Expenses 148 ($686k) Net assets 338 ($701k)2023 Revenue 126 ($602k) Expenses 161 ($745k) Net assets 269 ($557k)2024 Revenue 124 ($596k) Expenses 183 ($846k) Net assets 149 ($308k)2025 Revenue 132 ($635k) Expenses 167 ($772k) Net assets 82 ($171k)
2018202020212022202320242025
Revenue (132)Expenses (167)Net assets (82)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 23% · 2020 15% · 2021 10% · 2022 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

55% of Nashville Jazz Workshop’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
18
$370k
20
$13k
21
$155k
22
$143k
23
$249k
24
$137k
25
1.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $21k → $39k.

6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)57% 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 Nashville Jazz Workshop’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

Nashville Jazz Workshop has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

64% 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 Nashville Jazz Workshop.

37%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 86% · 2019 80% · 2020 42% · 2021 38% · 2022 34% · 2023 38%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

63% of Nashville Jazz Workshop's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

57% of Nashville Jazz Workshop'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. Of the $159k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

MI
CA
TN
SC
GA

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

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $209k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Nashville Jazz Workshop

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 40%Fundraising 2%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Nashville Jazz Workshop: 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 Nashville Jazz Workshop?
Nashville Jazz Workshop (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $368,340 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($135,411). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Nashville Jazz Workshop have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $368,340 in grants to Nashville Jazz Workshop, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Nashville Jazz Workshop?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $135,411 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Nashville Jazz Workshop find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 17funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing