FAKIR MUSAFAR FOUNDATION
To preserve the legacy of Fakir Musafar and to teach safe, respectful, and spiritually informed practices in body modification through hands-on education, workshops, and public programs that integrate historical techniques and modern health-and-safety standards.
About FAKIR MUSAFAR FOUNDATION
The Fakir Musafar Foundation is a San Francisco–based 501(c)(3) public charity focused on education and preservation of body‑arts traditions. The foundation delivers multi‑level piercing intensives, advanced technique workshops, and the annual Spirit + Flesh event to train professional piercers and to support safe, informed practice across the field.
Rooted in the legacy of Fakir Musafar (widely credited as a founder of the Modern Primitive movement), the organization operates curated training programs and maintains an instructor network and archival material documenting Fakir’s work. In recent years the foundation has resumed and expanded in‑person workshop offerings and continues to present educational programming and alumni activities for body‑arts professionals and enthusiasts.
Notable achievements
Incorporation as a nonprofit (2019)
Formally established as a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and recognized as a 501(c)(3), creating an institutional home to preserve Fakir Musafar’s work and run sustained educational programming.
Resumed and expanded workshop programming
Following pandemic disruptions, the foundation resumed in‑person intensives and reported running multiple workshops annually with roughly 90–100 total participants per year in recent program cycles, strengthening hands‑on training capacity for professional piercers.
Continued stewardship of Fakir’s cultural legacy
Maintained public programming, exhibitions, and the Spirit + Flesh event while documenting and teaching techniques and health/safety practices drawn from Fakir Musafar’s decades of work in body modification and photography.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $107K
- Annual revenue
- $194K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 84-2296333
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Website
- www.fakir.org
- On Mahalo since
- April 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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