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LiveConnectionsorg

LiveConnectionsorg (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,357,915 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($644,500). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$4.3M
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$-1581716
24/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What LiveConnectionsorg does

Mission

Liveconnections.org's mission is to open doors to music and culinary experiences that create connections, inspire learning, and celebrate who we all are.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. World cafe live (wcl) is a non-profit independent music venue where artistry meets social impact. Since 2004, we have engaged 2 million guests through ticketed concerts, interactive free education, culinary experiences and original programming. (see schedule o for summary of program activities.)

    $4,055,298 spent$3,787,494 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,055,298.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($872k) Expenses 100 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 318 ($2.8M) Expenses 155 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 500 ($4.4M) Expenses 157 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 491 ($4.3M) Expenses 386 ($5.3M)
2020202120222023
Revenue (491)Expenses (386)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $3.4M (+84%).

$2.0M
$1.8M
$3.4M
$2.9M
2020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 20% · 2022 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of LiveConnectionsorg’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$490k
’20
$663k
’21
$2.2M
’22
−$979k
’23
0.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Hal Real

President & CEO

Board chair

Lori Landew

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

2020202120222023
Listed20181917
Joined·+1+2+1
No longer listed·313
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $60k → $228k.

5 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of LiveConnectionsorg’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

LiveConnectionsorg has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LiveConnectionsorg.

27%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 23% · 2020 34% · 2021 65% · 2022 52% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

48% of LiveConnectionsorg's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

60% of LiveConnectionsorg's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

WI
MI
NY
PA
CO
MO
MD
NC
AL
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LiveConnectionsorg has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,778 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)70% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,778 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023

Government funding LiveConnectionsorg receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
22
23
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like LiveConnectionsorg

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 20%Fundraising 3%

Governance

16
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Real Entertainment-Philadelphia LLC · disregarded

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LiveConnectionsorg: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LiveConnectionsorg?
LiveConnectionsorg (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,357,915 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($644,500). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LiveConnectionsorg have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,357,915 in grants to LiveConnectionsorg, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LiveConnectionsorg?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $644,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LiveConnectionsorg find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing