Illinois · Nonprofit
South Side Jazz Coalition Inc
South Side Jazz Coalition Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($150,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $245k
- Net assets
- $3k
What South Side Jazz Coalition Inc does
Mission
The South Side Jazz Coalition cultivates safe spaces for free access to live music programs with a concentration on intergenerational events and collaboration with community grassroots organizations to promote arts and culture in southeast Chicago communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The 2nd Tuesday Jazz Jam is a free music event held every second Tuesday of the month. The open stage allows any community member to express themselves through music dance or spoken word. The event draws to 250 participants every month. We invite music students from surrounding schools to perform in order to benefit from playing with and receiving mentorship from elder musicians.
$0 spentof which $30,000 as grants0% of program spendingJazzn On The Steps is a partnership with St. Moses The Black presenting a live music concert on the steps of the church in Woodawn; a southeast neighborhood of Chicago with no access to free arts and culture. The series runs every fourth Sunday from May through October. Approximately 300 to 400 community residents attend each Sunday bringing the total audience throughout the summer to over 3,000 a year.
$0 spentof which $15,000 as grants0% of program spendingJazzn In The Parks is a partnership between the South Side Jazz Coalition and The Chicago Park District. Live local bands are presented in three south side parks throughout the summer with invitations to community members to come onto the open stage to expess themselves through song dance or spoken word.
$0 spentof which $10,000 as grants0% of program spendingCity of Chicago Halloween Parade allows the SSJC to hire teens to march in the parade play instruments and dress in costume.
$2,000 spentof which $2,000 as grants7% of program spendingThe South Side Jazz Coalition is a member of the South Side Mutual Aid Community of Care. We provide milk and diapers for infants gift card for single mothers and monetary sources for senior transportation as well as Christmas and Thanksgiving food baskets.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants17% of program spendingThe 10 Year Anniversary of the South Side Jazz Coalition in partnership with The Logan Center at The University of Chicago
$15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants51% of program spendingThe South Side Jazz Coalition presents a Black History Concert and Dinner in partnership with St. Moses The Black Parish.
$7,500 spentof which $5,000 as grants25% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $978 to $30k (+3006%).
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.
100% of South Side Jazz Coalition Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Margaret Murphy-Webb
Executive Director
Board chair
Peggy Thompson
Board Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $102k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 South Side Jazz Coalition 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
South Side Jazz Coalition Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 South Side Jazz Coalition Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 76% · 2023 84% — 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
66% of South Side Jazz Coalition Inc'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 $85k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k 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
South Side Jazz Coalition Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like South Side Jazz Coalition 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds South Side Jazz Coalition Inc?
- South Side Jazz Coalition Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($150,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does South Side Jazz Coalition Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $245,000 in grants to South Side Jazz Coalition Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of South Side Jazz Coalition Inc?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $150,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like South Side Jazz Coalition Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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