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THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM
THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,688,956 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($343,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $-60224
What The National Jazz Museum in Harlem does
Mission
The mission of The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is to preserve, promote, and present jazz by inspiring knowledge, appreciation, and the celebration of jazz locally, nationally, and internationally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our main public programs are: jazz for curious listeners, harlem speaks, and our live music series. Harlem speaks is the museum's oral history initiative that consists of an interview series with musicians, authors and other individuals who refelect on harlem's rich history of jazz. It is presented 46 times a year and is free to the audience. Jazz for curious listeners is a weekly evening program that takes an indepth look at jazz through conversations, lecture-demonstrations, interviews, and live music. Our live music programming lincludes our duke's keys piano series where pianists perform on duke ellington's piano, new sounds which features new and emerging artists, weekend jam sessions, international jazz day concert, havana harlem cultural exchange concert and other exhibition themed concerts. "born in harlem" is the core education program for teens and adults that looks at the musical and cultral innovations created in harlem during the frist half of the 20th century. "oom bop sh'bam" is an introduction to jazz for students in grades k-7. Specialized workshops connect with grade specific curricula including "changes in society" which looks at post wwi and the african…
$610,469 spent$34,346 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $610,469.
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 2018 to 2019, from $333k to $611k (+84%).
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 9% · 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2020 27% · 2021 35% · 2022 36% · 2023 28% · 2024 37% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 of the last 9 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
Tracy Hyter-Suffern
Interim exec director
Board chair
Richard Taffet
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $335k → $468k.
10 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
37% 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 THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 29% · 2019 19% · 2020 21% · 2021 31% · 2022 14% · 2023 28% — 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
55% of THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
66% of THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $652k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $823k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$499k
- National Endowment for the Arts$280k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$44k
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 THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM?
- THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,688,956 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($343,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $2,688,956 in grants to THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $343,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 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