California · Nonprofit
Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation
Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,062 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($48,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $199k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation does
Mission
To preserve and promote traditional jazz music primarily through adult and youth education programs and scholarships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024 the organization funded community outreach activities, provided young local musicians with instruments through the instrument match program, and encouraged promising traditional jazz musicians through scholarships and awards.
$21,200 spent$3,069 earned by the program7% of program spendingTraditional jazz festival - the only known scholastic jazz festival devoted to the performance of traditional jazz. The tjf is co-sponsored by the jazz studies program at sacramento state university. Approximately 30 youth bands from elementary through college attend from multiple states for a full day of jazz performance and feedback. Jam sessions and special clinics are included in the days events and in the evening individual students and bands receive cash scholarships and awards.
$124,648 spent$6,419 earned by the program44% of program spendingTeh annual traditional jazz camp held every summer at the sacramento county office of education site in sly park, ca. Around 150 kids ages 12-18 each spend a week studying jazz performance under the tutelage of professional musicians and instructors. Many kids attend on scholarships funded by the foundation and individual donors. At the youth camp, students are formed into 10 or 11 bands, and at the end of the week, these bands return to sacramento by bus to perform at a special afternoon concert in sacramento.
$136,881 spent$64,769 earned by the program48% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $282,729.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $1.3M (−22%).
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: 2023 6% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Patti Jones
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $2k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation’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
Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
80% 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 Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
80% of Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation: 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 Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation?
- Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,062 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($48,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $60,062 in grants to Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $48,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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