Phish.net is a non-commercial project run by Phish fans and for Phish fans under the auspices of the all-volunteer, non-profit Mockingbird Foundation.
This project serves to compile, preserve, and protect encyclopedic information about Phish and their music.
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The Mockingbird Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Phish fans in 1996 to generate charitable proceeds from the Phish community.
And since we're entirely volunteer – with no office, salaries, or paid staff – administrative costs are less than 2% of revenues! So far, we've distributed over $2 million to support music education for children – hundreds of grants in all 50 states, with more on the way.
The roots of that effort were modeled on previous efforts, a series of "Deadbase" books (useful in the taper/tape-trading era), but with the notion that rather than being a cottage industry of a few Dead fans who sought to profit from their work, we would organize into a "crowd sourced" collective and donate any profits to charity.
There are way too many people to credit for this effort, but the main force behind the coding of the modern (post-reunion) Phish.net site and the API which allows you to access and massage this data is the Foundation's current President, Adam Scheinberg. (A full list of site team credits with many of the people involved currently is accessible in the footer of this site "credits", a more complete list in the acknowledgements of "The Phish Companion, 3rd Ed.").