JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

T70Z

Classification

1000

Street

247 WEST 37TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

• Musicians' Emergency Fund/Housing and Emergency Assistance: Preventing homelessness and evictions for musicians in need and assisting with rent, mortgages, transportation, utilities and other essential living expenses. Most musicians have no savings, they rarely get paid properly, and they live gig to gig. For example, if someone can't work because they've had an accident and are now behind in their rent, we pay their rent and/or utilities to keep them from eviction. We also make sure there is enough food on the table and even go to the hospital with them for treatment if they are alone. In other crisis situations, we are needed to repair or replace instruments so that musicians can keep working. Whatever the situation calls for, we address the need through compassion and counseling from our social work team. JFA looks at the whole person and sees the long- and short-term challenges. This can include making home visits to an elderly person who is alone and even connecting them with younger musicians they can mentor who check in and help care for them. We also make calls after business hours to let them know they are not forgotten. Sometimes we uncover the root of someone's depression or help reconnect them with estranged family members. Every case is special and needs more than what it first presents. Whatever the situation, we heal it as best we can with love, a helping hand, and some creativity. JFA assisted in 1,180 unique cases through the Musicians' Emergency Fund in 2024.

  Expenses $1,178,841 · Grants $487,197

• Jazz and Blues in the Schools/Creating Employment: Dignified work that keeps the music alive. Most often, the best way to help blues, jazz, and roots musicians in crisis is to keep them working. Musicians who used to play six nights a week now have few or no options. The Jazz and Blues in the Schools program continues to be a vital source of income and optimism for our legendary elders. JITS serves multiple purposes: 1) providing dignified work for artists to continue doing what they love most; 2) presenting live music to underserved audiences at a variety of community venues and creating access to enrichment and entertainment; and preserving the legacy of jazz and blues through concerts by veteran audiences reaching new listeners. Many of the thousands of young attending their concerts have never heard live music. By sharing this music at schools that otherwise have limited access to arts and enrichment, we can help to build future audiences. In a digital world, this interaction provides the opportunity to learn how music is actually made. Through Jazz and Blues in the Schools, musicians feel alive with purpose, sharing their life stories with hundreds of new fans and passing on valuable lessons about the history and practice of blues, jazz, and roots music. JFA created 1,927 paid work opportunities for musicians in need through the Jazz and Blues in the Schools Program in 2024.

  Expenses $985,117

• The Gig Fund /Provide Jazz and Blues Music Free to the Public. The Gig Fund produces free, pop-up performances for underserved audiences. The shows take place in public spaces as opposed to traditional and costly venues, and engage new audiences who would not otherwise have the chance to hear these accomplished players. Our dream is for this program to return us to the days when a band would just start playing during lunch hour or after-work, and people would gather to listen, dance, and sing, and there would be this shared experience, reminding us that We Are All In This Together. In 2024 the JFA provide 530 work opportunities for musicians through the Gig Fund Program.

  Expenses $423,587

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $39,159,185

  Expenses

  $3,831,734

  Contributions

  $36,759,467

  Grants paid

  $487,197

• 2022

  Revenue

  $965,667

  Expenses

  $3,709,439

  Contributions

  $2,723,170

  Grants paid

  $572,761

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,124,660

  Expenses

  $3,931,759

  Assets (EOY)

  $32,790,220

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,586,492

  Expenses

  $3,710,687

  Assets (EOY)

  $39,222,817

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $24,040,889

  Expenses

  $3,554,776

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,199,156

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,752,656

  Expenses

  $2,976,997

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,874,245

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,527,029

  Expenses

  $3,574,508

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,092,596

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,767,751

  Expenses

  $3,675,915

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,110,658

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,674,969

  Expenses

  $2,604,464

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,963,065

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,215,647

  Expenses

  $2,230,880

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,974,561

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,172,371

  Expenses

  $2,239,523

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,014,709

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,284,239

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,058,100

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $198,101

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $164,551

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $155,231

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $110,000

  2023 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $102,400

  2022 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $100,000

  2022 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $80,700

  2023 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $66,400

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $52,750

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $47,225

  2022 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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