Arizona · Nonprofit
TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION
TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,115 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Tucson Jazz Music Foundation does
Mission
The Tucson Jazz Music Foundation is dedicated to making jazz music education accessible for Arizona's youth and the community. We provide tuition and travel scholarships to middle and high school age students (financial needs based), sponsor guest artists for workshops, performances, and residencies and recordings; sponsor participation fees and group travel expenses to adjudicated competitions and jazz festivals, provide mentors and private lessons to scholarship students, and organize and sponsor educational jazz music school shows and annual jazz celebrations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
19 financial needs based individual tuition and travel expenses scholarships to middle and high school students for jazz music education to attend the Tucson Jazz Institute (TJI) following HHS Poverty Guidelines
$22,495 spentof which $22,495 as grants30% of program spendingGroup travel expense sponsorship for 25-50 TJI students to three adjudicated Jazz Festivals (Las Vegas, Flagstaff, New Yor City): bus and airline travel $21,832, jazz festival participation fees $1700, lodging $12,400, meals $797.
$36,729 spentof which $36,729 as grants49% of program spendingSponsored guest artists, clinicians, mentors, and lecturer to serve 20-50 Tucson Jazz Institute middle & high school age students and the community: 5 out-of-state guest clinicians and lecturer, 9 performers and TJI Ellington Big Band for International Jazz Day Celebration, and 3 mentors for private lessons with 5 scholarship students. In addition, as fiscal agent, 6 additional performers are included for Alan Acosta's The New School Graduate Thesis project.
$11,095 spentof which $11,095 as grants15% of program spendingPurchased Music Instrument: $4301 saxophone purchased while students were in NYC for the Essentially Ellington festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center/Jazz Academy. Maintenance of $865 included for routine tuning and annual maintenance of the Yamaha piano purchased in 2024.
$5,166 spentof which $5,166 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,485.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $85k to $109k (+28%).
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.
92% of TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $44.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION’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
TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Arizona funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION
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In Arizona
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 TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION?
- TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,115 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $44,115 in grants to TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $18,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TUCSON JAZZ MUSIC FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2022–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing