California · Public charity
Burning Man Project
BURNING MAN PROJECT facilitates and extends burning man culture into the larger world. Its charitable mission is to uphold and manifest the values reflected in the ten principles of burning man, specifically: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic…
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $317k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $30M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Burning Man Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $317k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $465k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $376k | 68% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $223k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $55k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $787k | 82% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $802k | 79% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $831k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Arts & Culture$3.5MEnvironment$153kCommunity Improvement$59kPublic Safety & Disaster$57kPhilanthropy$55kHousing & Shelter$16kReligion$15kHuman Services$6kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
NJ
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
MD
NM
NC
OK
LA
GA
TX
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playa Projects LLC | $160,965 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple of Direction LLC | $115,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Reared in Steel LLC | $110,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Xian Productions | $102,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Jen Lewin Studios LLC | $98,748 | 3 | n/a |
| Flaming Lotus Girls | $95,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Twoforsea LLC | $88,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Empyrean LLC | $85,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Black Rock Labs | $72,800 | 3 | 4% |
| Friends of Black Rock High Rock Inc | $72,300 | 3 | 33% |
Show all 134 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playa Projects LLC | $160,965 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple of Direction LLC | $115,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Reared in Steel LLC | $110,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Xian Productions | $102,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Jen Lewin Studios LLC | $98,748 | 3 | n/a |
| Flaming Lotus Girls | $95,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Twoforsea LLC | $88,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Empyrean LLC | $85,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Black Rock Labs | $72,800 | 3 | 4% |
| Friends of Black Rock High Rock Inc | $72,300 | 3 | 33% |
| McConnell Studios Inc | $71,151 | 2 | n/a |
| Big Picture Builders LLC | $65,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Resonant Arts LLC | $61,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Tyler Fuqua Creations Inc | $59,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Weatherford Arts LLC | $58,685 | 1 | n/a |
| Gathering Tree LLC | $58,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foldhaus LLC | $53,485 | 1 | n/a |
| Eagle Rock Studios Inc | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Sparceland LLC | $47,307 | 1 | n/a |
| Flaming Lotus Girls | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Looking Up Arts Foundation | $43,100 | 3 | 25% |
| Mr & Mrs Ferguson LLC | $40,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Pinto Art Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 62% |
| Box Shop Inc | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Box Shop Inc | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hand Crank Creative LLC | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Conecophony Collective LLC | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rw Creations LLC | $37,745 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Through Colors | $37,172 | 1 | n/a |
| Dkla Design LLC | $37,018 | 1 | n/a |
| Unbound Arts Collective LLC | $36,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Lelavision | $36,140 | 2 | n/a |
| Goodly House Productions LLC | $36,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Zachary Coffin Studio Inc | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Protectors of Tule Springs | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Burner Project Co | $35,000 | 1 | 96% |
| Majorelle Arts | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Black Joy Parade | $35,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Common Ground Urban Development | $33,626 | 1 | n/a |
| Participatory Safety Inc | $33,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Iron Monkey Arts | $32,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Camp Epic LLC | $30,636 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Architecture Dpc | $30,021 | 1 | n/a |
| Daniel Mountain LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Staveley & Sutherland LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Spinart LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rocket Car Collective LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Christ2productions | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Light Years Away LLC | $29,661 | 1 | n/a |
| Burning Wish | $29,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Element 11 | $27,739 | 1 | 13% |
| Laser Eyes of Love | $27,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Resolute Arch LLC | $27,315 | 1 | n/a |
| Kindred Arts Inc | $27,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Embrio LLC | $26,481 | 1 | n/a |
| Coala Foundation | $25,718 | 1 | 46% |
| Leave It to Nino LLC | $25,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Reno Core Project | $25,372 | 3 | n/a |
| Blisswave Productions LLC | $24,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Nuclear Picnic Inc | $24,434 | 1 | n/a |
| O Chelsy Productions LLC | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gamelatron LLC | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alliger Arts Inc | $23,950 | 2 | n/a |
| Led Labs LLC | $23,707 | 1 | n/a |
| Next Earth Project | $22,711 | 2 | n/a |
| Orange Lotus Design Inc | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Eastern Promises | $22,200 | 2 | n/a |
| ArtBuilds Collective Ltd | $21,800 | 2 | 12% |
| Dsc Metal Collective | $20,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Desert Propaganda Collective LLC | $20,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Washoe County | $20,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Poetic Kinetics Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Miracle Wonderland Carnival Co | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Liquid Pxl LLC | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Product of Mars Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Godseed LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Barnacle Bros Sculpture & Custom Fabrication Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| House of Strange Rituals LLC | $19,998 | 1 | n/a |
| Emergence Project | $19,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Ripple Project LLC | $16,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Chromaforms LLC | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ennis Carnabuci Inc | $15,585 | 1 | n/a |
| Camera Lucida LLC | $15,507 | 1 | n/a |
| Tithorea LLC | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Circaform | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kift Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Metamorph LLC | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Re Engineering | $14,905 | 1 | n/a |
| Brs Studios Corp | $14,760 | 1 | n/a |
| David Best Temples | $14,574 | 1 | n/a |
| Coup de Foudre | $14,050 | 1 | n/a |
| The Honors Academy of Literature | $13,984 | 1 | n/a |
| Michael Glen Motion LLC | $13,740 | 1 | n/a |
| Tatareef Inc | $13,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Time 2 Fly LLC | $13,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Institute for Human Creativity | $12,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Elmendorf Geurts Ltd | $12,685 | 1 | n/a |
| Moon Run Productions LLC | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kelly Schott Art LLC | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Silent B LLC | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carbon Pictures | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hydemade | $11,163 | 1 | n/a |
| Tigre Bailando Creative LLC | $10,662 | 1 | n/a |
| Mayhem Snail Art Collective Ltd | $10,430 | 1 | 96% |
| Gerlach General Improvement District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Moonlight Collective LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Rock Arts Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Living Arts of Tulsa Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Uckiood LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Verbstudio LLC | $9,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Swing Shift Studio LLC | $9,500 | 1 | n/a |
| South Bay Burners LLC | $9,370 | 1 | n/a |
| Arts Council of New Orleans | $9,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Ticklemewithhappiness LLC | $9,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Zann Realty | $8,660 | 1 | n/a |
| High Plains Institute for Applied Ecology | $8,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Necessary Production Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Abracadabra Collective | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hydrocarbon Collective LLC | $7,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Salt Mind LLC | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Kwest Collective | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Skipaintings Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fernley Electric Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ghana Thinktank LLC | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Daruma Project LLC | $6,451 | 1 | n/a |
| The Generator Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hoh Share Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rpga Studio Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Space Whale LLC | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Hermitage Museum and Gardens | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Orgonym | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Rock Creative LLC | $5,585 | 1 | n/a |
| Km Exhibits LLC | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Washoe County School District | $5,241 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Burning Man Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Network for GoodDC1.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Burning Man Project
- How much does Burning Man Project give?
- Burning Man Project reported 19 itemized grants totaling $316,967, out of $1,576,720 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Burning Man Project fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Environment (4%), Community Improvement (2%).
- Who are Burning Man Project's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Playa Projects LLC ($161k), Temple of Direction LLC ($115k), Reared in Steel LLC ($110k).
- Does Burning Man Project fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Burning Man Project?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Burning Man Project based?
- Burning Man Project is based in CA.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home