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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.
Be Part of Shaping the Future Through Philanthropy
In an increasingly digital and isolated world, the human 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.
To protect this culture from commercial influence, Burning Man Project forgoes corporate sponsorship and vendor revenue sharing. This preserves a rare space where people participate, create and connect on different terms. Philanthropic support, rather than corporate sponsorship, makes up the difference.
Did you know?
Sponsorship provides about half of private funding at some leading nonprofit festivals, while sponsorship and vendor revenue sharing cover 20–30% of large corporate-run event budgets.
Burning Man is a living laboratory where people collaborate, test ideas, and creatively solve problems that make the world a better place.
Other Ways to Give
Email giving@burningman.org
- Annual Giving
- Donor-Advised Funds
- Employer Matching Gifts
- Stocks and Securities
- Qualified Charitable Distributions (IRA)
- Major Gifts
- Planned Giving
- Cryptocurrency
- In-Kind Gifts
- Multi-Year Pledges
The Burning Man Ripple Effect: From participation rises a spark, which leads to more values-aligned engagement far beyond the initial gathering. That is the Burning Man impact.
Bring It 365 & Everywhere
Every day is a chance to live Burning Man culture; extend it through new and existing pathways to inspire new participants and sustain a vibrant Black Rock City across generations.
Help us bring more programming, participation and learning across Fly Ranch, Rising Sparks, global gatherings, Regional Events, and other year-round programming.
Build What’s Next
Cultural and technological innovation is what we do; keep Black Rock City at the leading edge of participatory culture through ambitious art, regenerative infrastructure, and new ways of gathering and creating together.
Your support will help us fund artist grants, regeneration, and Black Rock City as a testing ground for new ideas, collaboration, and innovation.
Extend It Forward
Invite the next generations to shape the future of Burning Man culture and carry it into their communities.
Next-generation participants and leaders grow through internships, Ticket Aid, Rising Sparks connections, Philosophical Center research and more.
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
people have participated in Burning Man experiences in Black Rock City or at a Regional Event
$20.6m
granted to Black Rock City artists since 1999
+8,000
community-built artworks in Black Rock City since 1990
800
community-led civic projects in 44 countries
365
days per year the nonprofit brings Burning Man to the world
1.6m
visitors to Burning Man exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, on tour and at Chatsworth House
millions
watched The Man Will Burn on HBO Max
A Yale-led study that followed people who attended Burning Man found that participants felt more connected to all of humanity; their circle of moral concern widened with each day on site, and the experiences held six months later.
More than 85% of Black Rock City participants return for the connection and belonging and the impact has a lasting effect.
Solutions in Action
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
Hero: Dawn over Black Rock City, 2016 (Photo by Hannes Haefele)
“EPOD” by Michael Christian, Dallas Swindle, Auriah Jade (Photo by Jane Hu)
Drum Dance Workshop, Japan Burn 2025 (Photo by Danee Hazama)
Installation of “Vanishing Points” by Poetic Kinetics (Photo by Duncan Rawlinson)
European Leadership Summit, Tallinn Estonia
“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)
Burner on three-wheeler at “Planetary Playground” by Rainbow Girl, 2024 (Photo by Mattias Löw)
“Bella Novella” by Mouthmosa, 2026 (Photo by Gurpreet Chawla)
Our Case for Support PDF, Design by Martin Rodriguez
“Consumption” by Tom Boughner and the Desert Propaganda Collective, 2022 (Photo by Stephane Lanoux)