My home town does a all day event on the 4th of July, including a $20k fireworks show. Each year we raise $40k for the event. Over ten thousand people show up. We have to pay for the bands, the kid zone, the pool, rent the park, generators, fire and police, porta potties.... and so on.
Here is a video of the fireworks we put on:
If interested in donating check our our (totally lame) webwsite at
Lincoln California 4th of July Celebration and click on the donate button.