Festival Sponsorships

Each year, festival adjudicators award over $16,000 in individual merit awards and scholarships to outstanding and promising festival participants. The personal recognition encourages young artists to continue their music education, and the scholarships help young musicians pay for private music lessons and / or attend the Teagarden Jazz Camp. The Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation sustains these honors through the generosity of its sponsors and donors. Their contributions also enable the festival to waive registration fees for bands that otherwise couldn’t attend.

The Teagarden Jazz Festival began in 2006 with a $10,000 start-up grant from the late CEO of See’s Candies Chuck Huggins, and has since reached these milestones and has since reached the following milestones as of the 2023 festival:

  • More than 4,000 band students have attended
  • Every participating band has participated in clinics and workshops
  • Over $10,000 in festival fees have been waived for bands with financial need
  • More than $33,000 in awards and scholarships have been awarded.

Donor Levels

$5,000 – $10,000:
Title Sponsor

  • Full-page color ad on program back cover
  • Posting of major signage at festival
  • Business name and logo on festival web site
  • Table display of business promo material
  • Mention during Evening Showcase
  • Twenty complimentary passes for festival & patron concert seating

$3,000 – $4,999:
Venue Sponsor

  • Full-page color ad on inside back program cover
  • Listing as Venue Sponsor in printed program
  • Business name and logo on festival web site
  • Display of business promo material
  • Mention during Evening Showcase
  • Ten complimentary passes for festival and patron concert seating

$2,000 – $2,999:
Guest Artist Sponsor

  • Full-page ad (b/w)
  • Listing as Guest Artist Sponsor in printed program
  • Mention during Evening Showcase
  • Online listing on festival web site
  • Eight complimentary passes for festival and opening night concert

$1,000 – $1,500:
Travelling Clinician Sponsor

  • Half-page ad (b/w) in printed program
  • Listing as Travelling Clinician Sponsor in printed program
  • Mention during Evening Showcase
  • Six complimentary passes for festival and opening night concert

$500 – $1,500:
Scholarship Sponsor

  • Listing as Scholarship Sponsor in printed program
  • TJF Certificate of Merit & SacJEF check presentation to recipient
  • Backstage Photo with Scholarship Recipient(s) during Showcase
  • Four complimentary festival passes

$500 – $999:
Clinician Sponsor

  • Quarter-page ad (b/w) in printed program
  • Listing as Clinician Sponsor in printed program
  • Four complimentary festival passes

$200 – $499:
Band Sponsor

  • Business-card size ad (b/w) in printed program
  • Listing as Band Sponsor in printed program
  • Two complimentary festival passes

$100

  • Business-card size ad in printed program

Endowment Funds

$10,000 

An endowment fund is one way for a donor to provide a perpetual source of revenue within the Foundation and is a gift that lives and gives forever. 

The following endowment funds directly support the awards and scholarships awarded at the Teagarden Jazz Festival:

  • Norma Teagarden Scholarship Fund
  • Groezinger-Reed Fund for Jazz Camp
  • Tom & Jan Arnold Memorial Camp Scholarship Fund
  • Mark & Meredith Henderson Fund for Music Education
  • Kenton O. Smith College Scholarship Fund
  • Jim & Betty Fuller Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Phil Jenkins Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Sacramento Banjo Band Banjo Scholarship
  • Gus & Joan Blanchard Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Dillon Weatherly Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Bob Draga Scholarship Fund

If you are interested in creating a scholarship endowment fund or sponsoring a single festival scholarship, please contact SacJEF Executive Director, Patricia Jones at pjones@sacjef.org or (916) 571-5533.

Printed Ad Dimensions

Full Page: 7.75″ x 10″
Half Page landscape: 7.75″ x 4.875″
Half Page portrait: 3.75″ x 10″
Quarter Page:  3.75″ x 4.875″
Business Card:  3.75″ x 2″