California Jazz Foundation

Analysis

California Jazz Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sherman Oaks, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, California Jazz Foundation reported income of $113k and spending of $105k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $194k to $113k (-42%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, California Jazz Foundation sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Public Education Services Inc ($113k), Oasis of Smiling Hearts ($113k) and Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers of Fayette Inc ($113k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 45% of the total. At year end it held assets of $454k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $454k.