Virginia · Nonprofit
RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC
RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,880 to it, the largest being CultureWorks Inc ($86,167). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Richmond Jazz Society Inc does
Mission
To engage in education, preservation, and advancement of Jazz.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Daily Operations: RJS maintained its professional office space and provided resource and informational assistance to area students, journalists, researchers, arts organizations, musicians, and the general public. RJS maintained its status as a major clearinghouse for Jazz support and technical services for area arts and civic organizations. Services included media interviews; artist referrals and bookings; event planning and promotional support. Jazz preservation is a major component of our mission to educate the public and advance Jazz as an American art form. RJS continued to receive Jazz archival content from the general public including photographs, recordings, books, instruments, and other memorabilia from residents and the estates of muscians. RJS Executive Director and volunteers processed these items; digitized where appropriate; documented them. RJS maintained the organization's two independent, temperature-controlled, secured archival storage where the materials are stored. Programs Education & Outreach Programs:Our education and outreach programs feature are unique, participartory ensembles, "Make Music With Me Band"for children audiences and "Bright Moments Jazz…
$76,906 spent100% of program spendingDonated program services were provided at the fair value of $7,076 in the areas of contractual and educational services, advertising, contract services, entertainment, printing, promotional materials, musician fees, occupancy, printing, professional fees, operating supplies, equipment and facility rental, and preservation project.
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,906.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $82k to $42k (−48%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $18k → $9k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY 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
RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 88% · 2019 92% · 2020 80% · 2021 79% · 2022 78% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149 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.
Organizations like RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY 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 Virginia
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC?
- RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,880 to it, the largest being CultureWorks Inc ($86,167). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $97,880 in grants to RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC?
- CultureWorks Inc is the largest funder on record, with $86,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing