We did support the organization and Mr. Huckabee's involvement in it".
Direct spending on skills development is now more popular but does less to support the organization.
Dr. Campbell will still take money directly from the wealthy people who support the organization.
Nearly 40 funders support the organization, including the Ford Foundation, the Knight Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation.
When funding for Planned Parenthood was under attack, Mr. Dold spoke out on the House floor, urging his colleagues to support the organization.
Though JPMorgan was not a sponsor of the event, it does support the organization, Shari Harel, a spokeswoman for the UJA-Federation, said.
The sunglasses company Oakley, which had guaranteed at least $500,000 a year, said it continued to support the organization but had guaranteed no minimum for 2013.
They also proposed "cyber attacks", using social media "to profile and identify risky behavior of employees", and "get people to understand that if they support the organization we will come after them", implying threats.
It is one of several steps the the executive director, Greg Scholl, has taken since last year to build an online community of jazz fans to support the organization, harnessing social media and the Web site.
"They were never profitable, so we did fund-raisers to support the organization," said Holly Boyer, a board member of World of Good Development and its former executive director.
