Nonprofit · EIN 92-0173835
ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP
Tax-exempt · ANCHORAGE, AK 99504
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | 990-EZ | $91,855 | $82,276 | $9,579 | $68,190 | $21,243 | $46,947 |
| June 30, 2024 | 990-EZ | $91,218 | $110,451 | -$19,233 | $50,098 | $12,730 | $37,368 |
Financial details: 990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $46,361
- Membership dues
- $600
- Program service revenue
- $44,858
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $36
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $0
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $0
- Professional fees and payments to contractors
- $63,560
- Occupancy
- $11,230
- Printing, publications and postage
- $1,377
- Other expenses
- $6,109
- Program services (functional)
- $80,792
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $50,098
- Total assets, end of year
- $68,190
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $21,243
- Net assets, end of year
- $46,947
- Cash, savings and investments
- $63,471
- Gross receipts
- $91,855
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Damberg | President | 5 | $0 |
| Mark Manners | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Nicholas Petumanos | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Cameron Cartland | Secretary | 0.25 | $0 |
| Angela Dewey | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Yngvil Vatn Guttu | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2024: 6 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Damberg | President | 10 | $0 |
| Mark Manners | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Nicholas Petumanos | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Cameron Cartland | Secretary | 0.5 | $0 |
| Angela Dewey | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Yngvil Vatn Guttu | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 1600 WOLVERINE ST, ANCHORAGE, AK 99504-2565
- Signed the 990-EZ
- John Damberg, President
- Phone
- (907) 332-3234
- Website
- www.akjazzworkshop.org
Mission
The Alaska Jazz Workshop is a 501 c (3) non-profit community service organization formed to cultivate a support and educational system for jazz music and increase community awareness of jazz music. Its mission will be accomplished by providing jazz education programs and field trips, by presenting student and professional concerts and by networking and complementing programs offered by other jazz organizations in communities throughout Alaska and beyond.
Program accomplishments
- AJW's 7/1/24 to 6/30/25 Activities and Accomplishments: The AK Jazz Workshop's Jazz Education program included 6 Jazz Combo Improvisation classes in the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Semesters with 40 grade 7-adult students in beginning to advanced combos. Students received 2 hours of weekly instruction in song writing, improvisation skills, music theory rhythmic & melodic dictation, Jazz History, developing standard song repertoire, and building communication skills. Instructors included John Damberg, Nick Petumenos, and Mark Manners. The August 4-9, 2024 AJW Jazz Camp included 5 beginning to advanced small combos for 40 grade 7 -adult students. Students received 25 hours of instruction in small combo communication, performance & improvisation skills, and song repertoire building. Instructors included John Damberg, Nick Petumenos, Mark Manners, Jacques Annandale, and Ruben Lopez Ramos. The AJW presented 5 student recitals to over 484 audience members. The AJW Faculty Jazz Ensemble, including 8 professional Alaska teachers/performers, presented 16 concerts/workshops to 1061 students in the middle & high schools of the Anchorage and Mat-Su school districts. The concerts/workshops exposed students to the joy of creating music using jazz improvisation and to promote the AJW August 2024 Jazz Camp. The AJW's Community Jazz Session program, hosted by AJW instructor and board member Nick Petumenos, featured 50 weekly Community jazz jam sessions from 6:30-9:30 pm. on Mondays at the Fire Island Bakery located at 718 K St, Anchorage, AK 99501. The sessions employed 38 house band musicians performing for an average of 41 weekly audience members with a yearly total of 2135. This was a 32% attendance increase from the 2023 fiscal year. The audience members donated a total of $8,438 for the year with a weekly average of $159.21, which is a 13% increase from the 2023 fiscal year. The AJW also collaborated with the Anchorage Downtown Partnership to present 10 free outdoor jazz community concerts from 4-6 p.m. Saturdays from July 6-August 17, 2024 and May 31-June 1-28, 2025 at Peratrovich Park in downtown Anchorage to over 2,100 audience members from local Alaska to Alaska summer visitors from around the world. The concerts featured 10 local south central Alaska student & professional bands involving 46 musicians. The concerts featured the John Damberg Latin Jazz Quintet, the Blue Dixie Combo, AJW Student Jazz Ensembles, the Mark Manners Sextet, The KP Brass Band, the AK Soul Society, Williwaw Blue, Whereat, Phil Knowlton Band, AJW Community Jazz Session Jammers, the A Town Sharps, Choice Bit of Calico, the Phil Knowlton Band, and the AJW Jazz Camp Faculty Sextet. The AJW awarded 1 full and 8 half tuition waiver work scholarships to for the AJW 2024 Jazz camp, the Fall 2025, and Spring 2025 weekly jazz classes valued at $2,690. Grants received: the Atwood Foundation Grant of $20,000 on 3/27/24 to support the AJW 2024 activities including the 2024 AJW Jazz Camp, the AJW Weekly Community Jazz Session expenses from July 1-October 27, 2024, 16 AJW Jazz Outreach Improvisation workshops in the schools program, and the AJW 2024 Jazz Concert Series at Peratrovich Park in Anchorage, AK. Community donations from the AJW & ADP Concerts in the Park totaled $1522 for the AJW Student Scholarship fund. Community sponsors and donors include the Atwood Foundation, Alaska State Council on the Arts, the Rick and Cyndie Fox Foundation, the MUNI of Anchorage, CARTA-Retired Teachers of Alaska Association, and numerous private donations from Paul Paslay, Heather Tauschek, Peter Schaab, Tim Petumenos, Karen Strid, Stephanie Erickson, Scott and Linda Ruttum, Matt Peterson and Mary DeMers, , Ed Ulman, Mathew Olson, Mary Alice Johnson, Alexander Silver, Marcus and Laverne Lee, Randall Carlson, Dohnn and Kristie Wood, Rich Kinney, and many more. Total grants and donations for the fiscal year 2024 were $46,961.00.Expenses $80,792
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in June, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | June 30, 2026 | November 16, 2026 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | June 30, 2025 | November 17, 2025 | 990-EZ on file |
| 2023 | June 30, 2024 | November 15, 2024 | 990-EZ on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 92-0173835
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (509(a)(2))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2001
- Accounting year ends
- June
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A25)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $68,190
- Income (IRS master file)
- $91,855
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990-EZ | June 2025 | $91,855 | $82,276 | $68,190 | IRS |
| 990-EZ | June 2024 | $91,218 | $110,451 | $50,098 | XML |
| 990-EZ | June 2023 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | June 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | June 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | June 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | June 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 92-0173835).
Questions about ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP
- What is the EIN of ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP is 92-0173835.
- Is ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2001.
- Are donations to ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending June 30, 2026) is due November 16, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990-EZ for the year ended June 2025.
- Who are the officers and directors of ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP?
- The 990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025 lists 6 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.
- How much revenue does ALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP have?
- On its 990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $91,855, expenses of $82,276 and total assets of $68,190 at year end.
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