Mabou Mines Development Foundation Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Mabou Mines is an artist-driven experimental theater collective generating original works and re-imagined adaptations of classics. Work is created through multi-disciplinary, technologically inventive collaborations among its members and a wide world of contemporary filmmakers, composers, writers, musicians, choreographers, puppeteers and visual artists. Mabou Mines fosters the next generation of artists through mentorship and residencies such as the long-standing Resident Artist Program for emerging artists, and SUITE/Space for diverse artists from under-represented communities.
- Income
- $526,308
- Spending
- $477,544
- Spent on programs
- 75%
- Reserves
- 1.9 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 53%
- Employees
- 12
- Volunteers
- 7
- Highest pay
- $19,154, sec/treasurer
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Good: 71 out of 100. Higher than 44% of charities in its peer group (arts and culture, $250k to $1m).
Reserves
10 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 1.9 months of spending.
Debt
16 of 20It owes 24% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 9% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 8% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1575% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 6 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 97 out of 100. Higher than 91% of charities in its peer group (arts and culture, $250k to $1m).
Independent board
25 of 256 of 9 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
Independent check of accounts
12 of 15Its accounts were reviewed or compiled by an independent accountant, but not audited.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $358,467 spent. RENTAL PROGRAM: Theater and Studio Space Rentals to local artists, non-profits and universities to support the arts community with subsidized space.RUTH MALECZECH AWARDS: An annual cash award given to 1 or 2 performers "who embody Ruth's daring and raw, naked, fearlessness in every performance." FY25 awardees: Nicky Paraiso & Penny Arcade. September 29, 2024SUITE/space RESIDENCY PROGRAM: A 6-month residency for emerging, NYC, BIPOC artists. We presented Mary Prescott's SUNDER December 11-13, 2024 and excerpts of new works by former SUITE/space artists on December 16, 2024. Artists included: Maria Takeuchi, Jermaine Rowe, Marcelle Davies Lashley, Tariq Al-Sabir and Yoko Murakami. Artists all received rehearsal space, administrative and technical support, artistic advisement and a stipend. Ms. Prescott received a 50%-50% box office split.UTR Festival: Mabou Mines Partners annually with the Under The Radar Festival to present and produce or co-produce an original piece of performance. Mabou Mines co-commissioned, with Carolina Performing Arts, and co-produced, with Advanced Beginner Group, a new devised theater performance, Rich with History and other stuff you say at a haunted house, by Marcella Murray, David Neumann, and Tei Blow that extended the ensembles years-long exploration of race and relationship. Performances Jan 8-16, 2025. The piece toured to Carolina Performing Arts Feb. 27-28, 2025.FROM THE ARCHIVE: Moi-mme - Long lost sole feature film of the late avant-garde theater legend Lee Breuer (1937-2021). Shot in 1968 in Paris and abandoned later that year, the project was resurrected by Breuers son, filmmaker Mojo Lorwin, who began restoring and re-imagining the unfinished film in the last year of his fathers life. February 27, 2025 @ L'Alliance Florence Gould TheaterWORLD PREMIERES: RAINBIRD an opera based on the novel Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room by Janet Frame. Created by: Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel. Co-produced by: Mabou Mines, Experiments in Opera & Restless NYC. Performances April 16-20, 2025This Like a Dream Keeps Other Time - By Visual Artist Nene Humphrey in collaboration with Mallory Catlett. Co-produced by Mabou Mines. The piece invites the audience to share in a liminal space where loss is transformed into beauty, joy, and connection through song, visual art, and movement. The piece is a celebration of life, memory, and the healing power of communityone that challenges the boundaries between dream and reality, personal and collective experience. Performances May 15-18, 2025IN DEVELOPMENT: Barcelona Map of Shadows, an opera adaptation of a play by Spanish playwright Lluissa Cunille, directed by Mallory Catlett, music composed by Mika Karlsson and dramaturg Anton Pujol. Created in collaboration with: International Contemporary Ensemble. Co-produced by Mabou Mines & American Opera Projects in partnership with The Skirball Center.Etudes by Carl Hancock Rux with Jocelyn Clarke dramaturg. creates a philosophical convening of characters engaged in a recalling of crimes against humanity and its effect on their personal, historical and psychological development as they endeavor to unlearn the language and varying rituals of whiteness a narrative that centers white people, particularly white men, no matter the deadly cost and consequence to all women and to global Black and Brown people.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since September 1974.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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