Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC
VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,028,399 to it, the largest being MCKENZIE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($645,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $623k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $782k
What Vermont Jazz Center Inc does
Mission
The vermont jazz center is dedicated to creating and preserving jazz music through the presentation and direction of workshops, concerts, and instruction to a broad constituency of artists, students, and the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education & outreach - summer workshops providing instruction for approximately 60 students, as well as year round instruction and collaboration.
$169,917 spent$144,880 earned by the program42% of program spendingPerformances - performances by accomplished musicians are put on to provide students and the public with the opportunity to learn more about jazz.
$195,754 spent$84,310 earned by the program49% of program spendingTo preserve vermont jazz center's 45+ years of historically significant productions of jazz music and to make the material accessible and available to the public and those in academia.
$37,222 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $402,893.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $467k to $562k (+20%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $85k → $155k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 VERMONT JAZZ CENTER 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
VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 91% · 2019 74% · 2020 52% · 2021 63% · 2022 55% · 2023 45% — 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
62% of VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
80% of VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34k on record.
- Grants$34k
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 VERMONT JAZZ CENTER 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC: 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 VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC?
- VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,028,399 to it, the largest being MCKENZIE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($645,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,028,399 in grants to VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC?
- MCKENZIE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $645,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT JAZZ CENTER INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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