California · Nonprofit
Pacific Jazz Orchestra
Pacific Jazz Orchestra (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,547,200 to it, the largest being THE HERB ALPERT FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $243k
What Pacific Jazz Orchestra does
Mission
The mission of the Pacific Jazz Orchestra is to entertain and enrich the local community of Los Angeles as well as a global community through performance and education. The Pacific Jazz Orchestra produces an annual concert season and a summer education program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
PJO presents an outstanding and unique blend of "big band" jazz and classical chamber orchestra featuring bespoke arrangements performed at several mid-size venues in and around Los Angeles. Most are hosted by the venue and some are self-produced. The collaborating venues are: The Wallis Beverly Hills; The Soraya Northridge; Alex Theatre Glendale; The United Theater Downtown LA; Segerstrom Center Costa Mesa; Barclay Theater Irvine.
$626,035 spent$208,487 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn order to foster the next generation of musicians and artists the PJO will establish a week-long summer seminar workshop for young musicians. Participants will receive group lessons from orchestra members on their respective instruments and then rehearse together as an ensemble and at the end of the week perform a concert as the Pacific Youth Jazz Orchestra. Under the guidance of the Artistic Director the PJO will give guest conductors and arrangers the opportunity to lead concert projects in an effort to advance diversity in the field of music directors. Note: not yet operational
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $626,035.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $458k to $167k (−64%).
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.
58% of Pacific Jazz Orchestra’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Pacific Jazz Orchestra’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
Pacific Jazz Orchestra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
89% of Pacific Jazz Orchestra's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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
Pacific Jazz Orchestra runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Pacific Jazz Orchestra
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pacific Jazz Orchestra: 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 Pacific Jazz Orchestra?
- Pacific Jazz Orchestra (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,547,200 to it, the largest being THE HERB ALPERT FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pacific Jazz Orchestra have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,547,200 in grants to Pacific Jazz Orchestra, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pacific Jazz Orchestra?
- THE HERB ALPERT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pacific Jazz Orchestra find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 11 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