Oregon · Nonprofit
Willamette Jazz Society
Willamette Jazz Society (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,350 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($110,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $409k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $721k
What Willamette Jazz Society does
Mission
To foster a local vibrant jazz scene through concerts and educational programs that encourage our community to love, study and perform live jazz.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Concert Venue: The Jazz Station currently serves as the only non-profit community jazz venue in the state of Oregon, and only one in a handful across the nation. Our club, a Eugene downtown mainstay offers over 1,000 students and musicians a connection to over 9500 audience-goers and several dozen professional educators every year via approximately 165 concerts.
$178,461 spent$146,493 earned by the program84% of program spendingCommunity Educational Programs: 1. Jazz Station House Band Clinic provides the opportunity for students from all income levels and backgrounds in middle school and high school to connect with professional jazz musicians and educators in a safe and supportive in-school environment. 2. Jazz Station Jam expands the opportunities for all-age and community life-long learners who are interested in developing performance skills, meeting other musicians and receiving instruction to connect Wednesdays at an open jam. 3. Monday Night Big Band is a unique opportunity for local professional and amateur musicians to play together for community audience members once a month. 4. One-Set-Wednesdays affords budding musicians access to perform in front of a supportive audience in a real-life jazz venue environment, often for their very first time as leader of their own gig. 5. The Second Set Jam Sessions series is led by the U of O jazz faculty every other Wednesday. The goal of Second Set is to provide an opportunity for students at all levels. Amateur musicians, professionals, and jazz enthusiasts in the area to come together, connect with the music, and have a great time. 6. Our annual holiday…
$33,992 spent$27,903 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $212,453.
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 2022 to 2023, from $335k to $507k (+52%).
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: 2021 44% · 2022 5% · 2023 7% · 2024 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of Willamette Jazz Society’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $15k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 Willamette Jazz Society’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
Willamette Jazz Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Willamette Jazz Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
98% of Willamette Jazz Society'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k 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
Willamette Jazz Society runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Willamette Jazz Society receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $88k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO FOR-PROFIT SUBRECIPIENT$36k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$32k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$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 Willamette Jazz Society
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Willamette Jazz Society: 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 Willamette Jazz Society?
- Willamette Jazz Society (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,350 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($110,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Willamette Jazz Society have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $150,350 in grants to Willamette Jazz Society, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Willamette Jazz Society?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Willamette Jazz Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 5 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