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Livenationorg Foundation

Livenation.org uplifts the fans, artists, crews, and communities that make live music possible. The organization's prio mission focused on career development programming for individuals pursuing opportunities in the music industry. While these programs were completed during the year, the organization began transitioning toward a broader…

$466k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$142k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$5.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Livenationorg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$142k100%
FY20243$30k100%
FY20234$40k75%
FY20223$30k67%
FY20214$40k75%
FY20205$45kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$195kHuman Services$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kHealth$12k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York University$40,00040%
Backline Care Inc$11,6501n/a
The Howard University$10,00010%
Berklee College of Music Inc$10,00010%
Dillard University$10,00010%
City of New York Technology$10,0001n/a
Monmouth University Inc$10,00010%
Middle Tennessee State University$10,0001n/a
Queens University of Charlotte$10,00010%
Spelman College$10,00010%
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All grantees of Livenationorg Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York University$40,00040%
Backline Care Inc$11,6501n/a
The Howard University$10,00010%
Berklee College of Music Inc$10,00010%
Dillard University$10,00010%
City of New York Technology$10,0001n/a
Monmouth University Inc$10,00010%
Middle Tennessee State University$10,0001n/a
Queens University of Charlotte$10,00010%
Spelman College$10,00010%
Columbia College Chicago$10,00010%
La Trade Technical College$10,0001n/a
University of Louisville$10,0001n/a
Drexel University$10,00010%
Belmont University$10,00010%
University of Miami$10,00010%
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College$5,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($130k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Livenationorg Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Howard University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerklee College of Music Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDillard University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonmouth University Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrexel University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 11.

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.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor 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.

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How do I get to Livenationorg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Livenationorg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Livenationorg Foundation

How much does Livenationorg Foundation give?
Livenationorg Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $141,650, out of $465,733 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Livenationorg Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Human Services (30%), Public Safety & Disaster (9%).
Who are Livenationorg Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: New York University ($40k), Backline Care Inc ($12k), The Howard University ($10k).
Does Livenationorg Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Livenationorg Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, Folds of Honor Foundation.
Where is Livenationorg Foundation based?
Livenationorg Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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