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Fuel the World’s Most Radical Cultural Experiment
What began as a San Francisco gathering has matured into a globally-recognized nonprofit, a living laboratory for civic innovation, and more than 100 Regional communities across six continents.
Burning Man Is Uniquely Suited to Meet This Moment
In an increasingly digital and isolated world, our need to gather and belong in person has never been greater. Burning Man offers another way: a participatory culture where people step off the sidelines and build together.
Burning Man is a living laboratory where people collaborate, test ideas, and creatively solve problems that make the world a better place.
Be Part of Shaping the Future Through Philanthropy
Burning Man turns down corporate sponsorships and brand partnerships to protect the fierce independence of the global creative culture. This commitment emboldens people to discover their creative potential, take responsibility, and build what they want to see.
Other ways to give
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- Planned Giving
- Corporate Matching
- Donor-Advised Funds
- Qualified Charitable Deductions
Email giving@burningman.org
Build What’s Next
Keep Black Rock City at the leading edge of participatory culture through ambitious art, regenerative infrastructure, and continued innovation in how people gather and create together.
Includes: Black Rock City, art grants and support, sustainability, and the event’s role as a testing ground for new ideas.
Bring It 365 and Everywhere
Extend Burning Man culture—through new and existing pathways for new participants, and to sustain a vibrant Black Rock City across generations.
Includes: Fly Ranch, global events, Regionals, the European Leadership Summit, the Global Leadership Symposium, Rising Sparks Ignition Events, Tea Talks, Community Forums, and other year-round programming.
The Burning Man Ripple Effect: From participation rises a spark, which leads to more values-alined engagement far beyond the initial gathering. That is the Burning Man impact.
Extend It Forward
Equip the next generations to shape the future of Burning Man culture and carry it into their communities.
Includes: internships, ticket aid, grants, Rising Sparks programming/operations, philosophical center/research and programming, emerging artists, artists in residency programs, community leaders, and other opportunities for the next generation to learn and lead.
Feel the Impact
Burning Man’s impact begins with participatory creativity and ripples outward as people bring a sense of possibility, shared responsibility, and civic action into the world. A living philosophy and distributed community make Burning Man uniquely capable of turning participation into lasting civic and cultural impact:
+1 million
participated in Burning Man globally
100
community-led Regional Events around the world
$18m
granted by Burning Man Project to Black Rock City artists since 1999
8,000+
participant-created artworks in Black Rock City since 1990
800+
community-led civic projects across 44 countries since 2005
Smithsonian
850k
visitors at the No Spectators exhibit, Smithsonian, Washington DC, 2018
Chatsworth
500k
visitors at the Radical Horizons exhibit, Chatsworth House, UK, 2022
Participant’s Perspective
An Engine for Creativity, Resilience, and Regeneration
The cultural ecosystem linking Burners worldwide can bring experiences to people in meaningful ways, engineering powerful change, and showing this community’s unique and powerful capacity to ignite future cultural collaborations and co-designed art education around the world.
-Giedrius Kavaliauskas (Lithuania), Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä (Finland), Yaroslav Mamay (Ukraine)
Powered by Participation and Philanthropy
Burning Man is made real wherever people gather, create, and bring its principles home. There are no spectators. Participants build Black Rock city and local events, create art, operate camps and interactivity, lead teams, and own the shared cultural experience.
Philanthropic support sustains a vibrant Black Rock City and advances a more creative, connected and participatory world.
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Appreciations
Attributions for art and images will be placed here. This will be complete before publication.
“Wings of Wind” by Bryan Tedrick, on display at Chatsworth House, England as part of the “Radical Horizons: Art of Burning Man” show, 2021 (Photo by Frances Milburn)
Gardening at Fly Ranch (Photo by ____)