The Mockingbird Foundation

In celebration of Phish’s eight-show fall tour, the all-volunteer and fan-run Mockingbird Foundation has announced $8,000 in unsolicited Tour Grants, $2K each to one music education program in each city in which Phish recently performed. The four recipients are:

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Tour Grants are a long-standing effort by Mockingbird to support music education in the local communities which have welcomed and hosted the Phish community. And we thank YOU, our incredible supporters, for allowing us to continue this tradition!

mbird.org8 Shows, $8K in GrantsIn celebration of Phish’s eight-show fall tour, the all-volunteer and fan-run Mockingbird Foundation has announced $8,000 in unsolicited Tour Grants, $2K each to one music education program in each…

This is our 37th set of Tour Grants, and includes Mockingbird’s 809th grant and 254th Tour Grant, totaling over $3 MILLION since our founding. Read more here: mbird.org/2026/10/8-sh... Photo: John Crouch

✨ Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation Inc. of Atlantic City, NJ ✨ Music Orchard Richmond of Richmond, VA ✨ Terry Parker High School of Jacksonville, FL ✨ Huntsville Community Drumline of Huntsville, AL

The Mockingbird Foundation is honored to announce that we have endowed a fund with the Vermont Student Assistance Corp. (VSAC) to provide an annual scholarship to a student studying music or music education at a college in Vermont.

mbird.orgA New Scholarship, Powered by Phish Fans, for Music Students Attending College in VermontWINOOSKI, VT – A new scholarship is giving students a boost—funded entirely by Phish fans. The Mockingbird Foundation, a nonprofit created by fans of the band, has partnered with the Vermont Student…

The fund will provide scholarships in perpetuity, supporting generations of music students, and outlasting the band, the fans, and Mockingbird itself. In short: Music scholarships funded entirely by Phish fans will continue - in principle, and on appreciating principal - forever!

Thank you to ALL who have donated throughout our 30 years (!!!) as an organization to make something at this scale possible. read more: mbird.org/2026/09/vsac...

The second selection in the "Mockingbird (read the) Book Club" will be Walter (@waxbanks.bsky.social) Holland's Phish's A Live One. Part of Bloomsbury Publishing's fabulous 33 1/3 series, this is a 160-page retrospective twenty years after Phish's first live release,

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And it examines the mystery of how a quartet of nice boys from Burlington, VT could have been, all at once, one of America's biggest touring acts and one of its best-kept secrets."

Forum and blog discussions will start nearly four weeks from now, on September 23rd, and the Zoom Meet the Author will be Wednesday, September 30th, at 8 pm EST, 5 pm PST. Stay tuned for more details!

which followed years of the band being asked, "When are you going to release a live one?"... and, so, they did. As Bloomsbury details it, the book "places Phish and their fandom in historical and cultural context, and picks apart the mechanics of their extended group jams.

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Scott Marks

@bizarchive.bsky.social

7 Sept

I grew up in a town with an excellent music program which shaped my life immensely. I've been part of @mbird.org with setlist work on phish.net and later as a board member for the past 17 years and have tried to do my part to give back as music is one of the first things cut in school budgets.

25 Aug

With great excitement we are announcing our 4th annual Back to School fund drive. Schools across the country are gearing up for a busy school year and many can use our support to help close funding gaps for their music programs.

25 Aug

To help your donation go even further, one of our incredible donors has kindly offered to match donations up to $5,000 (and we’re about halfway there already!) The campaign is running now through Labor Day and we thank you for your generosity! 📸: Girls Rock DC - a 2025 competitive grant recipient

24 Aug

🎻Grantee Highlight🎻 Young Women’s Preparatory Network in El Paso, TX In 2025 this deserving organization was the recipient of a $10,000 competitive grant - used to broaden access to music education across two schools, grades 6-12.

24 Aug

As a result of the grant, more students were able to consistently engage in music classes and participate in performances and other enrichment opportunities that had previously been limited by funding constraints!

10 Aug

Join us (and @zzyzx.bsky.social!) this Wednesday at 8 pm EST us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

mbird.orgRunaway Open Returns to DenverWe’re once again offering multiple ways to play golf with fellow fans this Labor Day weekend, all while raising funds for music education. Registration is open for our annual charity golf tournament…

7 Aug

Goin to Dick’s? Play golf? Please consider playing with like-minded Phishy folk and supporting music education for children and young adults at the same time. And if you’ve enjoyed this fundraiser in the past please help spread the word mbird.org/11RO #Denver #Golf #Dicks #Phish

6 Aug

Join us August 12th at 8 pm EST for our first (Read The) Book Club discussion featuring @zzyzx.bsky.social's This Has All Been Wonderful us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

31 July

If you’re in Boston this weekend, come support The Mockingbird Foundation and a ton of other incredible independent Phish artists at Phan Art! Our new Summer Tour poster by Kory McGeehan is available for purchase along side all your other phishy faves.

31 July

Friday and Saturday / July 31 & Aug 1 / 12-6pm Right across the street from Fenway Park at the corner of Lansdowne and Brookline

29 July

We’re excited to announce nine new tour grants today, totaling $18,000 - one in each city in which Phish is performing during its summer tour. Grants will help fund new instruments, pay teaching artists, subsidize lesson tuition, purchase uniforms, and much more.

@waterwheelfoundation.org

29 July

These are our 36th set of tour grants, and include our 250th tour grant and 800th (!!) grant overall — all possible thanks to the support of fans like you.

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WaterWheel Foundation

22 July

5 nights! Let’s go! We have two tables at MSG, one at section 109 by the elevator (this is where Jim Pollock will be tonight) and one at section 118. Come find us at the Phish show! #waterwheelfoundation #yemsg #waterwheelfromtheroad #phishtour

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Drew but 10/5/26 Simple

@drewphish.bsky.social

19 July

My unending gratitude to @msdarthmikeshair.bsky.social and @juvenilesuccess.bsky.social for raising over $1,800 for @mbird.org yesterday! 🥳 Their hot dog/karaoke event at MPP was a huge success in spite of terrible weather! They put so much energy into it and they crushed it. You both rock! 🤘

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Charlie

@cdirksen.bsky.social

17 July

The weather tomorrow afternoon might be “a little wild […with] scattered severe thunderstorms, heavy winds, hail, [and a] small chance of a tornado” according to a genius who often forecasts the weather, accurately. So if you attend or consume anything at this “free event” you do so AT YOUR OWN RISK

The Mockingbird Foundation@mbird.org

Come grab a hot dog and support Mockingbird! We’ll be singing and grilling in the MPP lot on Saturday, pre-show. This is a free event, but donations will be graciously accepted. 🌭

docs.google.comMockingbird Foundation Good Karma 2026It's time for the 6th Annual Mockingbird Good Karma Pledge Drive!!! Thanks to the generosity of the Phish fan community we were able to raise over $50,000 over the last five summers for music educatio...

17 July

Come grab a hot dog and support Mockingbird! We’ll be singing and grilling in the MPP lot on Saturday, pre-show. This is a free event, but donations will be graciously accepted. 🌭

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Phish.Net

@phish.net

7 July

GOOD KARMA 2026 - EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE KARMA The Good Karma Pledge Drive returns this summer and is a great way to help @mbird.org support music education for kids while hoping for an epic #Phish tour over the next two months: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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@radiator9987.bsky.social

You've probably seen clips from the elementary students in Nederland, Colorado who recently performed a Phish-filled theatrical production. You might not know that music teacher Kirk Kubicek leads his students in a major rock musical at the end of each year.

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2 July

get yerself some Mockingbird @mbird.org store.mbird.org/products/kor...

store.mbird.orgKory McGeehan Summer 2026 PosterIn Celebration of 2026's summer tour, The Mockingbird Foundation proudly offers art by Kory McGeehan. Printed on 18" x 24" high quality rainbow sheen foil stock and also on regular 18" x 24" high qua...

6 July

Mockingbird’s newest poster is ready to order! Thanks to the folks at Show Merch LLC for production and Kory McGeehan for the incredible artwork. Every print purchased helps us grant much needed funds to music education programs across the United States! store.mbird.org/products/kor...

Today, the fan-run Mockingbird Foundation is mailing a $1,500 check to support his innovative and inspiring work - and Phish's own @waterwheelfoundation.org will be matching that grant for a total of $3,000!

We were so taken by the power of The Helping Friendly Book to bring this incredible music education moment to so many kids and are honored to help keep it alive for many more students to come.

26 June

Join fellow fans for thoughtful discussions about books connected to Phish, music, creativity, and community. Share the stories that bring us together, at a casual, leisurely pace. Vote for the first selection starting July 1: phish.net/news/1781729... #phish #bookclub #phishbooks #phishbookclub

25 June

Hope to see you in Denver again for the 11th Annual Runaway Open, September 5th! mbird.org/2026/02/runa...

16 June

With the announcement of our Round 31 competitive grants, Mockingbird has officially shared over $3 Million dollars to nearly 800 incredibly deserving youth music education organizations across the US!

mbird.orgMockingbird Grants Top $3M!A nonprofit founded and run by Phish fans on an entirely volunteer basis has announced twelve new grants to support music education, totaling $107,770. This is the 31st round of competitive grants…

16 June

Please help us congratulate our newest recipients. We truly cannot make this impact without your continued support! mbird.org/2026/06/mock...

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Phish.Net

@phish.net

20 May

rollingstone.comA Colorado Elementary School Staged a 75-Minute Phish Musical and It Was Pure JoyStudents from three Colorado mountain schools staged a complete theatrical production of Phish's Gamehendge saga, with a live band and handmade props.

7 May

In celebration of Phish’s three-weekend residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, we are thrilled to announce that Mockingbird Foundation was able to send an unsolicited $6,000 Tour Grant to Opportunity Village.

7 May

This organization provides a range of services to people with disabilities throughout southern Nevada. For adults, the organization provides employment services, as well as employment opportunities ranging from cleaning to shredding and beyond;

7 May

for teens, they provide a range of fine arts and recreation activities, including music education. And of course, thank YOU for helping us make donations like this possible!

mbird.org2026 Finch Funds AnnouncedThe all-volunteer Mockingbird Foundation has announced a special series of grants to organizations that submitted inquiries for our 31st round of competitive funding. The Grantmaking Committee pulled…

16 Apr

ANNOUNCING FINCH FUNDS GRANTS $21,461 in total has been granted to 12 music programs in 10 states, please click here for more info mbird.org/2026/04/2026... THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE DONATED TO MBIRD.ORG, YOU MAKE THESE GRANTS POSSIBLE! (donate.mbird.org/np/clients/m...)

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Drew but 10/5/26 Simple

@drewphish.bsky.social

14 Apr

Excited to announce that @mbird.org has a new way to collect donations with zero fees! We have a $6,000 grant planned for a school music program in need in Vegas if we can raise the funds. Who can help us make this tour grant for the Sphere run a reality? Even a small donation helps! #phish

phi.shHelp Fund a Vegas Grant! - Phish.netPhish.net is a non-commercial project run by Phish fans and for Phish fans.

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Jan 2 NYC - The Final Hurrah

@phanart.bsky.social

6 Apr

A sneak peak at a new print from artist Jeff Wood, made exclusively for The Mockingbird Foundation and available only at PhanArt Las Vegas starting April 17. All proceeds benefit music education through @mbird.org #phish #MockingbirdFoundation #Jeffwood #posterart #phanartlasvegas

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Divided Sky Foundation

@dividedskyfnd.bsky.social

8 Apr

What a powerful night of community, laughter, and music in support of Divided Sky Foundation. @dividedskyfoundation @treyanastasio @marcmaron @sarahkatesilverman @nickkroll @johnmulaney