California · Nonprofit
LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION
LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,883,488 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($540,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Livenationorg Foundation does
Mission
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 approach that includes grants, resources, and access to live music experiences for fans, artists, crews, and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the tax year, the organization changed its name from Music Forward Foundation to LiveNation.org Foundation and adopted an updated mission: 'LiveNation.org uplifts the fans, artists, crews, and communities that make live music possible.' The organization's prior 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 approach that includes grants, resources, and access to live music experiences for fans, artists, crews, and communities.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Crew Nation + Blues Schoolhouse: LiveNation.org provides direct financial assistance to live music professionals through Crew Nation, which delivers emergency relief grants to crew members facing hardship due to unforeseen circumstances, including industry disruptions, natural disasters, and personal crises. During the year, the organization also conducted education-based experiences, including Blues Schoolhouse, which provided exposure to the history and cultural impact of live music through learning experiences connected to live events and artist storytelling. These activities reflect programming completed during the year as the organization transitions its focus toward grantmaking and access initiatives.
$847,945 spentof which $300,750 as grants$54,830 earned by the program51% of program spendingOTRA+Career Development+Artist Development: The organization provides financial assistance through On the Road Again, offering grants to touring artists and crew members facing hardship due to unforeseen circumstances, including industry disruptions and personal crises. During the year, the organization also delivered career and artist development programming, including workshops, mentorship, and industry exposure. These activities reflect programming completed during the year as the organization transitions.
$677,855 spentof which $164,983 as grants$650,481 earned by the program41% of program spendingGIGTERNSHIPS: During the year, the organization delivered workforce development programming, including course design for careers in music and live entertainment, apprenticeship initiatives, and internship opportunities within the live music industry. These activities provided participants with practical skills, industry exposure, and pathways to employment. These efforts reflect legacy programming completed during the year as the organization transitions its focus toward grantmaking and access initiatives.
$126,265 spent$131,168 earned by the program8% of program spendingOther program expense
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,652,065.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $7.1M (+175%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 12% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $11k → $246k.
19 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% 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 LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 50% · 2019 90% · 2020 30% · 2021 60% · 2022 35% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.
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
61% of LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside California, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Against its field
LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION: 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 LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION?
- LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,883,488 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($540,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,883,488 in grants to LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 42 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