page_title: Burning Man Project
section_title: 1997 to 2010
hierarchical_section_title: Burning Man Project / History / 1997 to 2010
caption_attribution_description: English: Organizational Structure of the various legal entities that constitute the Burning Man Project
context_page_description: The Burning Man Project is the organization that annually plans, manages, and builds Burning Man on the dry lake of the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada. The company coordinates the year-round, behind-the-scenes work needed to build and remove a temporary city of 80,000 people.
  Burning Man ticket sales provide a multimillion-dollar budget for the organization. These revenues help the organization obtain required permits from the Bureau of Land Management, rent portable toilets and equipment, secure medical, fire, and law enforcement services, and cover other organizational expenses.
context_section_description: For the first time, the event was run by a legitimate business; rules were implemented, and the Department of Public Works was formed to oversee the task of setting up a city of 10,000 people. Consequently, 1997 was the first year that the city had a planned layout and a map. The intent of the founders was to dissolve and form a new LLC for each event cycle, as evident by the fact that Burning Man 98 LLC was formed on November 24, 1997; this was deemed entirely unsustainable in the business world, however. On February 4, 1999, Black Rock City LLC was formed as an organization to run Burning Man in the long term, then an event of 23,000 people.
  On May 8, 2001, The Black Rock Arts Foundation was founded as a separate nonprofit to promote Civic engagement and to help fund Interactive art.
  Additionally, Black Rock Solar was formed on May 21, 2008. The organization "promotes environmental stewardship, economic development and energy independence by providing not-for-profit entities, tribes and underserved communities with access to clean energy, education, and job training."
  Decommodification LLC was formed on November 23, 2010 to prepare for the transition to a nonprofit that would begin the following year.
caption: Current Structure of the Burning Man Project
exif: {}