Two organizations will receive the funds championed by Ivan Moody & Zoltan Bathory
Five Finger Death Punch has donated $200k from a portion of ticket sales from their massively successful headlining arena and amphitheater North American tour this past summer and fall. The funds will be split between two charities Ivan Moody and Zoltan Bathory handpicked.
Moody chose Covenant House, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping homeless, trafficked, and exploited youth and young families, in support of Youth Homelessness Awareness Month in November. With 34 locations across the Americas, Covenant House’s mission is to provide shelter, support, and comprehensive services to homeless youth. Highlighting this issue, Five Finger Death Punch leveraged their platform by including facts and resources for the cause in the music video for their 2023 single “Judgement Day.” An acoustic version of the song is available as a bonus track on the digital deluxe edition of Afterlife, alongside acoustic renditions of “The End,” “Thanks for Asking” and “This is the Way” featuring DMX, marking the late rapper’s first No. 1 at rock radio.
“Many of our songs and music videos speak directly to the issues being addressed by Covenant House,” says Moody. “Our commitment to donating to support their programs and using our platform to raise awareness perfectly aligns with the band’s and our fans’ values.”
Ivan Moody has made significant contributions to raising awareness in the recovery community. As someone in recovery himself, he has devoted both time and hundreds of thousands of dollars to supporting various recovery-focused organizations. Taking his commitment even further, he has established his own Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), Ciara Coral, in Cheyenne, WY, dedicated to guiding and assisting addicts throughout the recovery process and helping them regain control of their lives.
Zoltan chose to support the Call of Duty Endowment. This non-profit organization helps veterans find high-quality careers by supporting groups that prepare them for the job market and by raising awareness of veterans’ value to the workplace. His connection to this charity was forged when he was featured as a character—an in-game operator named Oz—in two Call of Duty games: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Call of Duty: Warzone.
Over the past two decades, Zoltan and Ivan have raised millions of dollars for various causes and shown overwhelming support to first responders and the military, including performing at military bases worldwide, employing veterans in their crew, highlighting veteran causes across their music/imagery and have donated proceeds from their 2019 No. 1 hit “Blue On Black” featuring Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brantley Gilbert, and Brian May to the Gary Sinise Foundation. The official video for the band’s landmark hit song, “Wrong Side Of Heaven,” brings awareness to the struggles of veterans suffering from PTSD and has garnered over 411 million views to date. The band also raised over $300K for various military organizations supporting veterans afflicted by PTSD through the campaign around the song in 2014. In 2016, 5FDP was awarded the prestigious Soldier Appreciation Award by the Association of The United States Army, an honor bestowed only upon Elvis Presley.
