California · Nonprofit
San Jose Jazz
San Jose Jazz (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,222,652 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($936,200). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What San Jose Jazz does
Mission
The purpose of the Organization is to enrich the community through music education and performance. San Jose Jazz is an innovative educational organization whose commitment to education and the community goes back over thirty years.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
FestivalSan Jose Jazz produces its annual summer fest, a multi-stage urban music festival in downtown san jose featuring jazz and related musical traditions. The festival advances the organization's mission by bringing diverse audiences together, providing access to live music, and creating performance opportunities for established, emerging, and local artists.
$1,779,535 spent$915,694 earned by the program58% of program spendingConcert seriesSan Jose Jazz presents year-round concerts and artist programs, including performances at the sjz break room, its intimate all-ages venue in downtown san jose. Programming showcases local, regional, and national artists, supports artistic development, and expands community access to live jazz and related music. Many break room performances are also live streamed.
$769,545 spent$245,600 earned by the program25% of program spendingYouth developmentSan Jose Jazz provides music education and youth development programs designed to expand access to high-quality music instruction and performance opportunities. Programs include progressions, summer jazz camp, and high school all stars. Through music instruction, ensembles, mentoring, and performance, these programs help students develop musical skills, confidence, collaboration, and personal growth.
$505,396 spent$342,830 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,054,476.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $2.6M (+88%).
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: 2017 18% · 2018 16% · 2019 13% · 2020 15% · 2021 32% · 2022 49% · 2023 34% · 2024 16% · 2025 13% · 2026 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Julie Ramirez
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $561k → $545k.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 San Jose Jazz’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
San Jose Jazz has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
51% 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 San Jose Jazz.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 25% · 2019 34% · 2020 19% · 2021 40% · 2022 34% · 2023 30% — 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
61% of San Jose Jazz's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
84% of San Jose Jazz's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like San Jose Jazz
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for San Jose Jazz: 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 San Jose Jazz?
- San Jose Jazz (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,222,652 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($936,200). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Jose Jazz have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $4,222,652 in grants to San Jose Jazz, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Jose Jazz?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $936,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Jose Jazz 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 37 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