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Mixed Bag Productions

EIN 94-2378992 · San Francisco, CA

Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.

LegitimacyPassesRegistration and standingFinancial healthFair60 out of 100GovernanceNot ratedThe short tax form does not cover thisImpact evidenceDescribes programsHow well its results are evidenced

Points to look into

  • It reported loans to or from officers, directors or other insiders.

These come from the organization's own tax return. There may be a good explanation; ask the charity.

What it says it does

To produce dance performance and dance instruction.

Income
$98,816
Spending
$98,602
Reserves
3.7 months of spending
Largest source of income
donations and private grants, 65%
Highest pay
$29,780, artistic director

Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate

Financial health

Fair: 60 out of 100. Higher than 29% of charities in its peer group (arts and culture, under $250k).

  • Reserves

    20 of 35

    Spendable reserves would cover 3.7 months of spending.

  • Debt

    10 of 20

    It owes 42% of what it owns.

  • Living within its means

    12 of 15

    Income exceeded spending by 0% of income.

Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate

Governance

This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.

Source: Form 990EZ 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 (4)
  1. $48,123 spent. San Francisco Arts Commission grant for Studio 201, Project Artaud, funded Salon Series. 2/7/25 - no end of detail: study session Choreographed and performed by Jesse Zaritt (25 audience). 3/7/25 - Moving Alchemy training manual book launch party hosted by Sara Shelton Mann (30 audience). 4/11/25 - tongues-in-cheek: new grammars and pleasure semantics choreographed and performed by Gabriele Christian and Styles Alexander (300 audience). 5/2/25 - Experiments/Fugivity choreographed and performed by NAKA Dance Theater (Debby Kajiyama and José Ome Mazatl) (60 audience).
  2. $17,654 spent. Dance teaching including Workshops: July 2024: Germany - Partnering (15 participants) and Moving Alchemy (25 participants); Austria - Training as Performance Practice (36 participants) and Seeing from the Eye of the Heart (26 participants). September 2024-April 2025: San Francisco, CA - one to three day workshops - Prompts for Composition , Moving Alchemy, Writing for Scenario/For love of Dancing (115 participants). January 2025 MELT New York City (virtual) Writing for Scenario/For love of Dancing (17 participants). April 2025 Los Angeles, CA - Spring Contact Jam (35 participants). May-June 2025: Sapataria, Portugal - Dancing from the Eye of the Heart (21 participants), and Berlin, Germany - 3 workshops (69 participants).
  3. $9,164 spent. The "Within the Heart / you get lost" project is a performative collaboration with Niall Jones and Jesse Zaritt on the occasion of Sara Shelton Mann's more than 60 years of choreographic work. It is conceived to oscillate between drawing and dance, past and future, tragedy and joy; with music, language, darkness, animation, lighting, toys, effort, camaraderie, silence, the magical gateway into the wilderness of the world is sought. By and with: Sara Shelton Mann, Niall Jones, Jesse Zaritt. Performed 7/5/25 at Ponderosa, Lunow-Stolzenhagen, Germany (100 audience). Other performances include 8/4/24 "Spoken Choreographers" at ODC, Sa Francisco, CA (100 audience); 11/3/24 "L/in the field of ruins/in the field of dreams" choreographed by Sara Shelton Mann, D.I.R.T Festival, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA (140 audience). Residency: 6/7-15/25 Schloss Brollim, Fahrenwalde, Germany - Project: "L/are we dreaming" directed by Sara Shelton Mann in collaboration with Jesse Zaritt, sound design by Niall Jones (30 audience)
  4. $2,747 spent. Distribution of Moving Alchemy Training Manual: What if dancers could change the energy in the room? What would that look like? This book is the product of over 50 years of inquiry in pursuit of an answer to these questions. The choreographic puzzles offered here hold some of the most essential keys I've found to open the door to transformation - personal and creative. Each exercise is an invitation to engage the imagination with creative rigor, to fuse technical skill with improvisation, to move steadily into a place of empowered intuition. They are meant to help you find your own essential questions and forge the path to pursuing the answers. The book itself is a beautiful object, printed in full-color and filled with photographs, sketches, and hand-written notes. There are prompts to movement, writing, and reflection, instructions on deep listening (inner and outer), and tips to locating a reality that speaks with one's own unique voice.

Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate

Legitimacy checks

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.

    Recognized by the IRS since January 1977.

    Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.

  6. 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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