The Cause

For 33 years, the Jazz Foundation of America has provided compassionate,
discreet, and personalized assistance to jazz, blues and roots musicians
in need due to age, illness, natural disaster or other circumstances.

Our Musicians’ Emergency Fund provides housing assistance, pro bono
medical care,  disaster relief, and financial support to musicians
and their families in times of crisis.

Through Jazz and Blues in the Schools and The Gig Fund,
we create dignified work that brings live music to thousands
of under-served audience members of all ages across the country.

Whatever the need is, we don’t just fix the problem, we become family.

During the pandemic, we have assisted more than 2,000 clients a year
in 43 states across the U.S., plus D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.