SUBREDDIT: r/personalfinance
TITLE: How to: - Investing in myself.
POST: I am a professional artist, musician specifically, with a new second revenue stream not specifically associated with my musical endeavors. I would like to use this revenue, in part, to amplify my creative pursuits by covering equipment purchases, operating capital and project costs. At the moment all of my income is earned as an independent contractor/sole proprietor, music and the secondary revenue. It all goes in a bank account and I determine expenses at tax time and do as appropriate. This secondary revenue is going to change to Employment income shortly and I am looking to get my finances in order, keeping the employment money separate from music money while showing on both bottom lines that some of the employment money was invested in the pursuits of the music business. 

I realize I may be using the term 'invest' generically here as I don't intend this to be something which engages the SEC too heavily, if at all.
TL;DR: 
I want to support a local artist, which happens to be me, with financial contributions and show that on my personal taxes as well as their business balance sheets .