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National Independent Venue Association
As the nation's live entertainment association, our mission is to cultivate, elevate, and advocate for a sustainable and equitable ecosystem of independent performance venues, festivals, and promoters.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k25 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $235k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GIVING BACK FUND | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION | $235,287 |
| AMPHITHEATRE YBOR INC | $5,000 |
| TRUE WEST LLC | $5,000 |
| STAGES MUSIC HALL INC | $5,000 |
| EXITIN | $5,000 |
| USUALLY HIP INC | $5,000 |
| GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL | $5,000 |
| PTG LIVE EVENTS LLC | $5,000 |
| REGENT THEATRE DTLA LLC | $5,000 |
| THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE LLC | $5,000 |
| THE TROUBADOUR | $5,000 |
| RIVAL HOLDINGS LLC | $5,000 |
| COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC | $5,000 |
| BELLY UP TAVERN LLC | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
4 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization National Independent Venue Association 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.
- Count Basie Theatre Inc — 8% of income from government
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.
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