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Livenationorg Foundation

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

$466k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $141,650, the rows itemized in this filing. The $465,733 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $324,083 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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9
Seton Hill University

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

Education
10
Albright College

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

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbia College Chicago; 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 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. 13 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 UNIVERSITYBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $10,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCDILLARD 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 CollegeColumbia College Chicago: $10,000 · EducationColumbia College ChicagoUNIVERSITY 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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
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.

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 Found…Folds of Honor Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Livenationorg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Livenationorg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 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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