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STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD

STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,563 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($71,063). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$198k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$102k
Net assets
$-148272
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Stowe Jazz Festival Ltd does

Mission

The stowe jazz festival brings world class jazz performance to general public free of charge; in support of community, culture, education, and the arts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The stowe jazz festival (sjf) is a three-day music event that takes place in august, in several venues in and around stowe, vermont. It is our mission to bring world-class jazz performance to the general public free of charge; in supportive community culture, education, and the arts.

    $196,511 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $196,511.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($19k) Expenses 100 ($30k)2021 Revenue 115 ($21k) Expenses 126 ($38k)2022 Revenue 441 ($82k) Expenses 644 ($193k)2023 Revenue 930 ($173k) Expenses 561 ($168k)2024 Revenue 1011 ($188k) Expenses 638 ($191k)2025 Revenue 1062 ($198k) Expenses 664 ($199k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (1062)Expenses (664)Peer revenue range

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 $53k to $37k (−31%).

$53k
$37k
$21k
$26k
$21k
$10k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2021 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,206 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’20
−$16k
’21
−$111k
’22
$5k
’23
−$3k
’24
−$1k
’25
0.2
months of
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

George Petit

Executive director

Board chair

Eric Santini

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212025
Listed779
Joined·+0·
No longer listed·0·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $22k → $28k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD’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

STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD.

70%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 86% · 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

70% of STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD'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 $31k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Vermont funders.

VT
NY
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)60% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21k on record.

State$21k
Top programs
  • Grants$21k

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 STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD

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 Vermont

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD?
STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,563 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($71,063). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $101,563 in grants to STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $71,063 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL LTD find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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