New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,858 to it, the largest being JULIUS FLEISCHMAN FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $664k
What National Independent Venue Association does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership:niva members represent the small businesses, non-profits, and publicly-owned spaces that make up most of the live entertainment ecosystem. Niva offers a range of valuable member services designed to support and uplift its community of nearly 1,500 members. These services include a platform for networking and knowledge exchange within the live entertainment industry, monthly town hall meetings, exclusive partner discounts, and advocacy on the federal, state and local levels. Niva also has a group discount program to leverage the collective buying power of our members to provide discounts on every-day products and services used by our members. Niva aims to provide every member the equal opportunity to thrive, which in turn contributes to the overall success of our sector and the evolving needs of our community.
Advocacy: niva engages with federal, state, and local policymakers to protect and strengthen the independent live entertainment industry and advocate on behalf of independent venues, promoters, festivals, and performing arts centers across the country. In fy 2025, niva engaged on legislation across 24 states and continued leading the fix the tix coalition, a broad alliance of live event industry organizations and professionals working to combat price gouging, speculative ticketing, deceptive marketing, hidden fees, and other harmful practices impacting fans, artists, and independent businesses. To further support these advocacy efforts, niva launched the state of live, the first comprehensive national economic impact study focused on the independent live entertainment sector. Released on june 23, 2025, the report quantifies the industry's economic contributions, examines the challenges threatening its sustainability, and provides critical data to inform policymaking and public awareness efforts. The study empowers niva members with state and localized economic impact data and industry insights to strengthen advocacy efforts at the federal, state, and local level and reinforce the…
Conference: niva continues its growing and increasingly impactful conference. Niva has grown from a 550 attendee conference in 2022 to a 1400 attendee conference in 2025. Niva's conference has taken place in cleveland, washington (d.c.), new orleans and milwaukee. The conference provides its diverse members, affiliates, and partners with four days of programming, education, networking and entertainment. Important topics discussed included industry diversity, mental health, safety, insurance, economic impact of live entertainment, booking, artist development, ticketing, and the role of live entertainment in policymaking. Monumental moments from niva '25 included the debut of the state of live economic impact study, the announcement of minneapolis as the host city for niva '26, discussions on how to address the live nation monopoly and pros not paying songwriters. Niva '26 planning, which will take place june 7 to june 10, 2026, is well underway.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $495k to $1.2M (+134%).
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.
13% of NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Stephen Parker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $5k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $568k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Independent Venue Foundation); $235k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest National Independent Venue Association). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 87% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Independent Venues Association PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION: 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 NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,858 to it, the largest being JULIUS FLEISCHMAN FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $31,858 in grants to NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION?
- JULIUS FLEISCHMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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