New York · Nonprofit
MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,033,820 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($365,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $526k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $180k
What Mabou Mines Development Foundation Inc does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
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…
$358,467 spent$31,699 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $358,467.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $268k to $165k (−39%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 20% · 2019 25% · 2020 17% · 2021 52% · 2022 45% · 2023 24% · 2024 30% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Esther Fortunoff-Greene
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $158k → $125k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 47% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 43% · 2022 30% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC?
- MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,033,820 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($365,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,033,820 in grants to MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $365,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MABOU MINES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing