Breakeven (BE) · $15,489
Phase 2 Close · $48,440
$0 of $52,650
0% of sellout
199 tickets — hard cap. Sellout at $52,650.
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Off the Top · Before Any Phase
Per-Ticket Obligations
~$85 / ticket blended
Every ticket sale has these contractual obligations paid out first — they go to outside parties on each transaction and never enter any phase pool. By the time we hit BE (~85 tickets sold), about $7,289 has already flowed through to the parties below.
- Venue · $10 / day per ticket
- Subphonic Events · $37 / ticket
funds stage sound & lights
- The Dome · $7 / ticket
- Stripe · 2.9% + $0.30 / txn
- Affiliate Codes · $5 / ticket
applied on ~30% of tickets
Tickets only. Addons (Car Camping, RV, Cabins, Early Arrival) and merch do not carry these per-ticket obligations. They only have Stripe processing fees taken off (and merch also has its COGS), and the rest of every dollar flows directly into the active phase pool. So an addon or cabin purchased weeks after the ticket adds nearly its full price to the festival pool.
Phase 1
Required Costs — Put On The Event
Pool target: $8,200
After the per-ticket obligations above are paid on each sale, the rest of every ticket dollar fills this Phase 1 pool — Legal/Insurance & Permits, EMT, a deeper-safety Contingency, and a brand-new $1,000 Artist Floor. The pool fills to $8,200 by the time ticket sales reach ~$15,489 gross (Breakeven, ~85 tickets). The $1,000 Artist Floor is the festival's collective minimum commitment to artists — by BE, that floor is locked in before Phase 2 even begins. Clearing this pool confirms the event.
$0 / $8,200 pool
0% funded
How the $8,200 Phase 1 pool breaks down at BE
- Legal / Insurance & Permits
Multi-member CA LLC formation · liability + event insurance · county permits (event, alcohol, fire)~$3,000
- EMT / medical on-site~$1,200
- Subtotal flat fixed costs~$4,200
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Contingency Reserve — secondary safety net
Held as a deeper backup for true unexpected events (major weather hits, vendor true-ups, late-stage permit changes). The Experience & Ops fund (Phase 2) is the primary day-of operational reserve — only if that's exhausted do we tap this. Built entirely in Phase 1 and frozen at $3,000 from BE onward — Phase 2 and Phase 3 don't add to it. (Was $4,000; $1,000 was redirected to the new Artist Floor line below.)
~$3,000
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Artist Floor — collective minimum artist pay
The festival's commitment to artists before Phase 2 even starts. Builds in Phase 1 from $0 to $1,000 alongside the other Phase 1 lines, then locks in. Sits on top of the $11,980 in Phase 2 slot ceilings — total artist fund tops off at $12,980. Funded by tightening Contingency from $4,000 → $3,000.
~$1,000
- Phase 1 pool total at BE Lock$8,200
Phase 2 — Surplus Funds
Once BE is cleared, every additional pool dollar splits across the three funds below simultaneously, and all three top off together at the single Phase 2 finish line: $48,440 raised. Artist slot ceilings ($11,980, sitting on top of the $1,000 Phase 1 floor) take ~69¢ of every Phase 2 pool dollar, Experience & Ops ($2,500) ~14¢, and Ambiance & Workshops ($3,000) ~17¢ — one curve, one milestone, every Phase 2 promise kept at the same moment. (Contingency Reserve and Artist Floor are Phase 1 only — see the Phase 1 box above.)
Artist Pay (ticket-funded)$0 → $12,980 · floor $1,000 + ceilings $11,980
$12,980
Artist pay is funded in two layers. Phase 1 — Artist Floor ($1,000): built from $0 → $1,000 as the Phase 1 pool fills, distributed proportionally across all 64 slots. By BE, every slot already has its floor share locked in — the festival's minimum commitment, and artists are never paid less than this because the event itself only happens if BE clears. Phase 2 — Slot Ceilings ($11,980): Bowl Daytime $4,220 + Bowl Evening $6,160 + K Lodge Afters $1,600. Each slot grows from its floor share at BE up to its full top-off (floor + ceiling) at the end of Phase 2 (~$48,440 raised). Slot ceilings take ~69¢ of every Phase 2 pool dollar — the biggest share. Bowl Daytime got a $3,000 boost (was $1,220) — that money came from the 2027 Seed Fund and lifts daytime per-slot top-offs into the ~$92–$238 range. Once Phase 2 closes, Phase 3 begins and every remaining pool dollar flows to the 2027 Seed Fund.
$0 / $12,9800%
Experience & Ops · Primary ReserveBE → $48,440 (Phase 2 close)
$2,500
Primary day-of operational reserve. Barriers, decor, signage, crew meals, on-site ops, and the first-line cushion for any unexpected costs the weekend throws at us. Scales smoothly across Phase 2 and tops off at the shared Phase 2 milestone (~$48,440 raised) alongside Artist slot ceilings and Ambiance — its share of the Phase 2 pool is ~14¢ on the dollar. The Phase 1 Contingency Reserve ($3,000) sits underneath this as a deeper backup if anything overruns.
$0 / $2,5000%
Ambiance & WorkshopsBE → $48,440 (Phase 2 close)
$3,000
Installations, interactive art, non-music performers, and workshops that shape the feel of the whole weekend. Scales smoothly across Phase 2 and tops off at the shared Phase 2 milestone (~$48,440 raised) alongside Artist slot ceilings and Experience & Ops — its share of the Phase 2 pool is ~17¢ on the dollar. Stage sound & lights scale automatically via Subphonic; this fund is for everything around them.
$0 / $3,0000%
Phase 3 — Seeding 2027
Phase 3 is purely the 2027 Seed Fund. Once Phase 2 closes — every promise kept, artist slot ceilings fully topped off at $48,440 raised — every remaining pool dollar through sellout funds one fund only: the foundation for next year's festival.
Phase 3 · sole fund
2027 Seed Fund
$48,440 → Sellout · ~$2,233 pool · 100¢ of every Phase 3 pool dollar
$2,233
Activates the moment Phase 2 closes (around $48,440 raised). From there to sellout, every pool dollar becomes the foundation for next year's festival — no other Phase 3 funds compete for it. The target dropped from $5,233 to $2,233 because $3,000 was redirected into Bowl Daytime artist pay, lifting daytime per-slot ceilings into the $85–$220 range. Final allocation (2027 artist fund, organizer comp, community reinvestment) decided post-event with the team.
$0 / $2,233 pool
0% funded
Phase 1
Before Breakeven
Pool $0 → $8,200 (BE)
- Legal/Insurance & Permits + EMT
LLC setup · insurance · permits · medical — $4,200 fixed51¢
- Contingency Reserve · secondary backup
Deeper safety net for true unexpected events — fills to $3,000 by BE, then frozen. Exp & Ops (Phase 2) is the primary day-of reserve.37¢
- Artist Floor · collective minimum
The festival's locked-in minimum to artists, built in Phase 1 — fills to $1,000 by BE then sits on top of the $11,980 Phase 2 slot ceilings.12¢
Per $1 of Phase 1 pool100¢
Phase 2
Surplus Allocation
Pool $8,200 → $25,680 · phase pool $17,480
- Artist Slot Ceilings
Scales from $0 at BE to the full $11,980 across all 64 slots at end of Phase 2 (~$48,440 raised) — biggest share of the Phase 2 pool. Sits on top of the $1,000 Phase 1 floor.69¢
- Experience & Ops · primary reserve
Barriers · decor · signage · crew meals · day-of cushion — tops off at Phase 2 close ($2,500)14¢
- Ambiance & Workshops
Installations · interactive art · workshops — tops off at Phase 2 close ($3,000)17¢
Per $1 of Phase 2 pool (averaged)100¢
Phase 3
Pure 2027 Seed
Pool $25,680 → $27,913 · phase pool $2,233
- 2027 Seed Fund · sole Phase 3 destination
Every pool dollar past Phase 2 close becomes the seed for next year (≈ $2,233 — reduced from $5,233 because $3,000 was redirected into Bowl Daytime artist pay)100¢
Per $1 of Phase 3 pool100¢
Live Per-Slot Artist Budget — all 64 slots →
Every slot starts at its floor share by BE (its proportional cut of the $1,000 collective Phase 1 Artist Floor — artists are never paid less than this, because the event only happens if BE clears) and scales up to its top-off at the end of Phase 2 (~$48,440 raised). Top-off totals: Bowl Daytime $4,572 · Bowl Evening $6,674 · K Lodge Afters $1,734 = $12,980 (= $1,000 floor + $11,980 ceilings). Values update live as tickets sell.
