California · Nonprofit
Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford Jazz Workshop (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,319,002 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($777,600). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Stanford Jazz Workshop does
Mission
Stanford Jazz Workshop produces educational programs and performances by assembling a community of the best performers and teachers of jazz with students and listeners of all abilities and backgrounds.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Four weeks of immersive education and performance activities that include in-depth instruction in jazz theory and musicianship (beginner through advanced), individual instrument and vocal master classes with leading jazz artist faculty and emerging professionals and intensive coaching in improvisation skills by leading jazz artist faculty and guest artists. Education Programs include live Online Sessions and Classes for musicians ages 11 through adult, placed based on experience level, with access to a library of on-demand video lessons of particular jazz subjects.
$1,598,652 spentof which $120,555 as grants$1,461,397 earned by the program64% of program spendingStanford Jazz Festival - annual series of premiere jazz concerts featuring distinguished jazz legends, top local jazz artists, and SJW Alumni and other emerging professional musicians that is performed in the heart of the Stanford Jazz Workshops education programs, with some concerts taking place prior to the start of education programs in mid-July. Artists have included over 45 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters, many of whom have appeared multiple times and are integral members of the organizations distinguished artist faculty. SJF attracts approximately 15,000 attendees each summer, with many concerts selling out well in advance of performance dates. SJW students are invited to all SJF performances free of charge throughout their education residencies. Appearing on each summers Festival line up are numerous SJW Alumni who have well-established careers today as some of the leading musicians in this highly competitive field. Alumni also teach our students. SJW also provides holiday concerts and holiday online webcasts.
$540,690 spent$302,374 earned by the program22% of program spendingSJW also offers numerous outreach clinics, workshops, and other educational opportunities for students and adults during the non-summer months of each year that include jazz theory, instrumental instruction, composition and arranging, and combo and big band formats for receiving high quality instruction/coaching, plus opportunities to perform in the area.
$371,144 spentof which $14,658 as grants$165,137 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,510,486.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $2.2M (+70%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 52% · 2022 21% · 2023 2% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of Stanford Jazz Workshop’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Karen Nagy
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $162k → $229k.
15 of 38 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 Stanford Jazz Workshop’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
Stanford Jazz Workshop has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
44% 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 Stanford Jazz Workshop.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 33% · 2019 41% · 2020 39% · 2021 28% · 2022 43% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of Stanford Jazz Workshop's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
92% of Stanford Jazz Workshop's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $974k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Stanford Jazz Workshop's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Stanford Jazz Workshop receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Stanford Jazz Workshop
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 Stanford Jazz Workshop: 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 Stanford Jazz Workshop?
- Stanford Jazz Workshop (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,319,002 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($777,600). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Stanford Jazz Workshop have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,319,002 in grants to Stanford Jazz Workshop, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Stanford Jazz Workshop?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $777,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Stanford Jazz Workshop 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 38 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