Tucson Jazz Music Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454049940
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5207431349
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,336
- Expenses
- $82,173
- Assets
- $102,989
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Krystyna Parafinczuk (Treasurer / Organizer & Program Manager)
- Jonathan S Black (Director | Scholarship Liaison)
- Arthur Vint (Director / Organizer & Century Room Jazz Education Program Manager)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Tucson Jazz Music Foundation is dedicated to making jazz music education accessible for Arizona's youth and the community. We provide tuition and travel scholarships to middle and high school age students (financial needs based), sponsor guest artists for workshops, performances, and residencies and recordings; sponsor participation fees and group travel expenses to adjudicated competitions and jazz festivals, provide mentors and private lessons to scholarship students, and organize and sponsor educational jazz music school shows and annual jazz celebrations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sponsored guest artists, clinicians, mentors, and lecturer to serve 20-50 Tucson Jazz Institute middle & high school age students and the community: 5 out-of-state guest clinicians and lecturer, 9 performers and TJI Ellington Big Band for International Jazz Day Celebration, and 3 mentors for private lessons with 5 scholarship students. In addition, as fiscal agent, 6 additional performers are included for Alan Acosta's The New School Graduate Thesis project.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 78% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.9%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.9% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.