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JAZZ ARTS GROUP OF COLUMBUS

EIN 31-0852944 COLUMBUS, OH

Revenue 2023
$2,010,707
Expenses 2023
$2,393,915

Program services were 63.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A680
Classification
1000
Street
769 E LONG 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

Mission

TO PROMOTE THE AWARENESS OF JAZZ MUSIC THROUGH ITS OWN PROFESSIONAL JAZZ REPERTORY ORCHESTRA.

  • PERFORMANCE SERIES: THE COLUMBUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA (CJO) WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1973 AND PRESENTS TWO SUBSCRIPTION SERIES FOR 900 SEASON SUBSCRIBERS AT THE SOUTHERN THEATRE AND LINCOLN THEATRE. THE CJO IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S FINEST JAZZ ORCHESTRAS AND IS CONDUCTED BY BYRON STRIPLING. OUR "JAZZ AT THE LINCOLN" SERIES IS PRESENTED AT THE LINCOLN THEATRE IN THE KING LINCOLN DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS AND PROMOTES SMALLER ENSEMBLES TO DEVELOP NEW AUDIENCES FOR MORE MODERN MUSIC.

    Expenses $947,966 · Revenue $541,721

  • JAZZ ACADEMY (JAZZ IN THE COMMUNITY, JAZZ IN THE SCHOOLS): THE JAZZ ACADEMY CONSISTS OF TWO CATEGORIES, COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAMS AND SCHOOL BASED PROGRAMS, BOTH PROGRAM CATEGORIES ARE DESIGNED TO ENGAGE CHILDREN TO SENIOR CITIZENS IN THE ART OF JAZZ. LIVE PERFORMANCES ARE CONDUCTED IN CENTRAL OHIO SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTIONAL SESSIONS ARE CONDUCTED AT MUSIC STUDIOS OPERATED BY JAG. JAZZ ACADEMY PROGRAMS TARGET ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGED YOUTH WITH IN-SCHOOL PROGRAMS. JAZZ ACADEMY PROGRAMS ARE ALSO DESIGNED TO PROMOTE PROFESSIONAL DEVEOPMENT OF PUBLIC AND PAROCHIAL SCHOOL TEACHERS TO ENHANCE THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL SKILLS.

    Expenses $542,319 · Revenue $51,347

  • AFFILIATE MUSICIANS/OUTREACH: PART OF THE PURPOSE OF THE JAZZ ARTS GROUP (JAG) IS TO PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CORE OF COLUMBUS'S JAZZ MUSICIANS. AFFILIATE MUSICIANS LINK PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS WITH CONSUMERS FOR LIVE MUSIC. THE COLUMBUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA AND OTHER ENSEMBLES ALSO PRESENT PROGRAMS IN A VARIETY OF SETTINGS THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND REGION THROUGH THIS PROGRAM.

    Expenses $36,819 · Revenue $73,150

As filed on the 2023 return.

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.

  • Katy Coy

    CHIEF EXEC.

    Total calculated
    $37,500
    From this org
    $37,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Press Southworth

    CHIEF EXEC.

    Total calculated
    $98,400
    From this org
    $98,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michael Peddicord

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gil Gradisar

    PAST PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steve Driver

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tom Huesman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Natalie Adams

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jocelyn Armstrong

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alessandro Ciaffoncini

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dalena Cupp

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kevin Flanigan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Hatcher

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dennis Kovach

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert E Lee III

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Therese McCann

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sandy Meizlish

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pete Mills

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Doug Pittsenbarger

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kyle Welch

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,010,707
    Expenses
    $2,393,915
    Contributions
    $1,267,133
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,394,642
    Expenses
    $2,224,257
    Contributions
    $1,739,399
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,449,283
    Expenses
    $1,743,745
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,074,581

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,143,915
    Expenses
    $1,149,277
    Assets (EOY)
    $586,684

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,570,452
    Expenses
    $1,642,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $490,341

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,921,257
    Expenses
    $1,816,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $692,345

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,750,084
    Expenses
    $1,740,014
    Assets (EOY)
    $542,038

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,637,887
    Expenses
    $1,684,117
    Assets (EOY)
    $520,280

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

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.