Burning Man Project
San Francisco, CA · EIN 45-2638273. Reported 71 grants totalling $1,382,004 to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Burning Man Project, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 21% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $24,000; the smallest was $5,585 and the largest $80,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twoforsea LLC | Petaluma, CA | $88,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jen Lewin Studios LLC | New York, NY | $71,308 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mcconnell Studios Inc | Raleigh, NC | $71,151 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Flaming Lotus Girls | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tyler Fuqua Creations Inc | Oregon City, OR | $43,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Box Shop Inc | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Conecophony Collective LLC | Sheridan, WY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pinto Art Inc | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Resonant Arts LLC | Chimacum, WA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unbound Arts Collective LLC | Palo Alto, CA | $36,600 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Goodly House Productions LLC | New Orleans, LA | $36,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Black Burner Project Co | Odenton, MD | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Joy Parade | Oakland, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Looking Up Arts Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $33,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Participatory Safety Inc | New York, NY | $33,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eagle Rock Studios Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Empyrean LLC | Boulder, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rocket Car Collective LLC | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Staveley & Sutherland LLC | Santa Fe, NM | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Xian Studios LLC | Oakhurst, CA | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| O Chelsy Productions LLC | Newark, NJ | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Next Earth Project | Huntsville, UT | $22,711 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Artbuilds Collective Ltd | Sacramento, CA | $21,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mr & Mrs Ferguson LLC | Alameda, CA | $21,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dsc Metal Collective | Richmond, CA | $20,650 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Desert Propaganda Collective LLC | Reno, NV | $20,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Barnacle Bros Sculpture & Custom Fabrication Inc | San Leandro, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Liquid Pxl LLC | Long Beach, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Poetic Kinetics Inc | Elbert, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Product of Mars Inc | Arlington Height, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lelavision | Vashon, WA | $19,980 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Emergence Project | Truckee, CA | $19,350 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ripple Project LLC | Glen Arm, MD | $16,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chromaforms LLC | Portola Valley, CA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Circaform | Penngrove, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kift Inc | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Metamorph LLC | Reno, NV | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Reno Core Project | Reno, NV | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tithorea LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brs Studios Corp | Los Angeles, CA | $14,760 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Majorelle Arts | Berkley, CA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Honors Academy of Literature | Reno, NV | $13,984 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tatareef Inc | New York, NY | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Elmendorf Geurts Ltd | Denver, CO | $12,685 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carbon Pictures | Brooklyn, NY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mayhem Snail Art Collective Ltd | Fort Collins, CO | $10,430 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gerlach General Improvement District | Gerlach, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Looking Up Arts Foundation Inc | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Moonlight Collective LLC | Mercer Island, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Uckiood LLC | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Swing Shift Studio LLC | San Francisco, CA | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Zann Realty | Kirkland, WA | $8,660 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| High Plains Institute for Applied Ecology | Amarillo, TX | $8,650 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Abracadabra Collective | Reno, NV | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eastern Promises | San Francisco, CA | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Skipaintings Inc | Morongo Valley, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Rock Creative LLC | Van Nuys, CA | $5,585 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
14 of 57 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Resonant Arts LLC
COMMUNITY BASED PROJECT GRANT - Big Rock Creative LLC
FISCIAL SPONSORSHIP FOR VIRTUAL ART
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | $223,356 | $13,842 |
| 2022 | 19 | $376,201 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 19 | $465,480 | $17,100 |
| 2024 | 19 | $316,967 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
42% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Burning Man Project's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 6 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 13 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 660 Alabama Street 4TH Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94110.
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