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Livenationorg Foundation

Livenation.org uplifts the fans, artists, crews, and communities that make live music possible.

$466k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $141,650 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $465,733 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $324,083 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONG ROAD TOURING INC$100,000
ORDER OF THE SNAKE TOURING IN$30,000
BACKLINE CARE INC$11,650
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $10k → 16%MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%LA SOUTHWEST COLLEGE: $10k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%CITY OF NEW YORK TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 20%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $10k → 15%MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE: $10k → 10%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $10k → 13%BACKLINE CARE INC: $12k → 12%COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO: $10k → 14%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%DILLARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFO: $10k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%LONG ROAD TOURING INC: $100k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%ORDER OF THE SNAKE TOURING IN: $30k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
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Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
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Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
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Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
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Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
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Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
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Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
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Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbia College Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Backline Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LONG ROAD TOURING INC — $100,000 · OtherLONG ROAD TOURING INCORDER OF THE SNAKE TOURING IN — $30,000 · OtherORDER OF THE SNAKE TOURING INCITY OF NEW YORK TECHNOLOGY — $10,000 · OtherCITY OF NEW YORK TECHNOLOGYMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITYLA TRADE TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $10,000 · OtherLA TRADE TECHNICAL COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE+1 more — $5,000 · OtherNew York University — $40,000 · EducationNew York UniversityTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYColumbia College Chicago — $10,000 · EducationColumbia College ChicagoDILLARD UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationDILLARD UNIVERSITYMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 · EducationMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INCQueens University of Charlotte — $10,000 · EducationQueens University of CharlotteSpelman College — $10,000 · EducationSpelman CollegeBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $10,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIADREXEL UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYBelmont University — $10,000 · EducationBelmont UniversityUniversity of Miami — $10,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiBACKLINE CARE INC — $11,650 · Health
Other$175,000Education$150,000Health$11,650

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNew York University — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College Chicago — $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 budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Livenationorg Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc1% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

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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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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