About the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Fund 

The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Fund is a long-term organizational fund held and managed by the Cleveland Foundation on behalf of our organization. The fund augments the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra’s budget and helps ensure long-term financial stability through the preservation and investment of dollars for future benefit. With oversight from our board, the Cleveland Foundation stewards our fund and ensures that each dollar multiplies over time to generate returns earmarked to sustain the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra.

The Cleveland Foundation, the world’s first community foundation, is as a public charity and exists to manage funds by donors for the benefit of a specific cause. Through the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Fund, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra gains access to the foundation’s large investment pools and proven track record of more than a century of nonprofit investment management, leading to greater growth and greater stability for the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. As an organizational partner and fund holder of the Cleveland Foundation, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra can also work with the foundation’s Advancement team with decades of legal, tax and philanthropic experience to help grow and manage the fund.

Donors interested in supporting the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra mission to increase awareness and appreciation of jazz by engaging the community with original music, exceptional performances, and inspirational educational programming can give directly to the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Fund online via: bit.ly/CJOfundCLE

All gifts to the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Fund are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law, and the Cleveland Foundation provides gift acknowledgment letters or receipts for each donor. The Fund also accepts appreciated securities and planned gifts such as from charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts and charitable lead trusts. Contact the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra or reach the Cleveland Foundation’s Advancement team at 216-685-2006 for a personalized consultation.

Each gift to the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Fund will make a difference by being preserved today and invested to meet our areas of greatest need tomorrow.