· Public charity
Burning Man Project
BURNING MAN PROJECT facilitates and extends burning man culture into the larger world.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $288k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONECOPHONY COLLECTIVE LLC | $40,000 |
| ROCKET CAR COLLECTIVE LLC | $30,000 |
| O CHELSY PRODUCTIONS LLC | $24,000 |
| TYLER FUQUA CREATIONS INC | $22,000 |
| PRODUCT OF MARS INC | $20,000 |
| BARNACLE BROS SCULPTURE & CUSTOM FABRICATION INC | $20,000 |
| POETIC KINETICS INC | $20,000 |
| GOODLY HOUSE PRODUCTIONS LLC | $19,000 |
| THE NEXT EARTH PROJECT | $15,223 |
| CIRCAFORM | $15,000 |
| BRS STUDIOS CORP | $14,760 |
| THE HONORS ACADEMY OF LITERATURE | $13,984 |
| CARBON PICTURES | $12,000 |
| ARTBUILDS COLLECTIVE LTD | $12,000 |
| LOOKING UP ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $325k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $124k to organizations and $201k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: HONORARIA ART GRANT · INTERNATIONAL ART GRANT
Stated purpose: DESIGN GRANT · HONORARIA ART GRANT
Stated purpose: COMMUNITY BASED PROJECT GRANT · DESIGN GRANT · HONORARIA ART GRANT
Stated purpose: HONORARIA ART GRANT
Stated purpose: DESIGN GRANT
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Burning Man Project’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 40%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RIREARED IN STEEL LLC2× · 2017–2019 · $110k
- XPXIAN PRODUCTIONS3× · 2018–2021 · $102k
- JLJEN LEWIN STUDIOS LLC3× · 2017–2023 · $99k
Funded once
- PPPLAYA PROJECTS LLCone grant, 2017 · $161k
- TOTEMPLE OF DIRECTION LLCone grant, 2019 · $115k
- BPBig Picture Builders LLCone grant, 2019 · $65k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Pro Arts supports art that pushes boundaries, generates critical discourse, and challenges the status quo. Annually Pro Arts presents over 200 artists, working in diverse artistic fields
Develop commuities with art
Art education and awareness.
ChinatownMuralProject brings vibrant, large-scale murals to Chinatown and beyond. These culturally resonant artworks celebrate the communitys heritage, history, and daily life in a whimsical, accessible style. The project aims to brighten…
We produce, manage and direct events, programs and exhibitions for the purpose of developing artist - audience relationships throughout important Los Angeles communities. Passionate about promoting all contemporary art-forms and their…
The furthering and advancement of the arts.
We provide artwork to the community
art education
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 134 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Burning Man Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burning Man Project. Bigger dots raise more.
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