California · Nonprofit
Mirabel Pictures
Mirabel Pictures (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $506,703 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($100,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $507k
- Net assets
- $-325775
What Mirabel Pictures does
Mission
Mirabel Pictures mission is to create artistically bold art and media projects that explore the critical issues of our time. We believe in the power of art and media to create positive social and economic change in the world. From war and disease, to the complex dimensions that surround aging and death, our work is unified by a compassionate humanism. Mirabel Pictures is deeply committed to working with vulnerable communities: both those who are economically disadvantaged and whose stories are underrepresented. With each of our projects, we work to cultivate community engagement that inspires and transforms audiences into socially engaged citizens
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
YO (Heaven Through the Backdoor) Project description: Unfolding in a magical world of memory and imagination, YO explores the mystery of death through the unconventional friendship of Anna and Yo, two kindred spirits born 49 years apart. Using intricately built miniature sets and other creations, the film juxtaposes intimate vrit of Yo's last year with Anna's creative interpretations of her stories.In 2024 final stage editorial and production on this film was the main focus of our creative work. We showed an excerpt of the film in Los Angeles as a part of the Sundance Institute alumni focus event. We are currently in Post-Production and plan to premiere the project in early 2026. The project received support from Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Creative Work Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts among others
$165,259 spent93% of program spendingHeaven Through the Backdoor Project description: Part myth, part documentary, Heaven Through the Backdoor is a multi-platform documentary that explores identity and spirituality through the unconventional friendship of Anna and Yo, two kindred spirits born 49 years apart. The film is a testament to the enduring power of friendship and what we learn from each other in life and after death. In 2023 production on this film was the main focus of our creative work. We are currently in Post-Production and plan to premiere the project in 2025. The project received support from Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Creative Work Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts among others. In 2021 we hosted multiple in person open studio events at our studio at the Noonan building where we showed our work in progress media and sculptural installation work.
The Genius of Marian (feature documentary film) & The Genius of Caring (ongoing multimedia and multiplatform outreach campaign) Our flagship initiative, The Genius of Caring addresses an array of interconnected challenges that arise through the aging process. For individuals with caregiving intensive diseases and those who care for them, the experience can be extremely isolating at a time when support and communication is needed the most. This work is designed to reach people remotely and we remain dedicated to this mission. In November 2024, we launched we launched the new The Genius of Marian streaming site. The new website makes our feature length film The Genius of Marian and all of our short films and educational material free and accessible to the public.
$5,170 spent3% of program spendingMirabel Pictures was founded by multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker Banker White and Emmy-Award winning-director Anna Fitch. Our award-winning films have been shown at film festivals and theaters worldwide; exhibited at museums and galleries; and broadcast widely on PBS, BBC, Al Jazeera, Netflix, NYTimes & others. Our work includes The Genius of Marian, Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars, The Genius of Caring, Survivors, ScrapHouse, My Life Before Me & A Marriage to Remember. Mirabel Pictures projects have been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Tribeca Film Institute, Creative Capital, Bertha Foundation among others.In addition to art and media production, Mirabel Pictures also supports media education and professional development for working artists. In 2009, the organization co-founded and continues to support the WeOwnTV Freetown Media Center, a brick and mortar creative hub in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Our support provides a safe space to work, access to state of the art equipment, educational programming…
$2,340 spent1% of program spendingWeOwnTV / WeSurvive / Filmmaker Fellowship Project description: In 2024 we continued our support of the WeOwnTV Freetown Media Centre. We helped them secure a new lease for the media centre, supported community outreach efforts for The New Boats and supported production of a handful of new projects. while also premiering a set of exciting projects we co-produced. The New Boats is an investigative documentary that presents an eye-opening look at the impact of International Industrialized fishing in West African waters and it's disastrous effect on local communities. The film premiered on ARTE in 2023. Two standout new projects we are supporting are Arthur Pratts Darkness & the Light, and Lansana Barmmy Boy Mansarays, Ar-mant Mu-baike (Water is coming). Darkness & the Light is a poetic meditation on the intersections of race, Christianity, and morality that confronts contradictions at the heart of Americas spiritual and political identity. Ar-mant Mu-baike (Water is coming) follows the mayor of Freetown as she has to navigate both political and environmental challenges amongst multiple exploding consequences of the climate crisis in Sierra Leone.
$5,757 spent3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $178,526.
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 $414k to $229k (−45%).
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 75% · 2022 7% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of Mirabel Pictures’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $64k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Mirabel Pictures’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
Mirabel Pictures has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Mirabel Pictures.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 60% · 2020 31% · 2021 39% · 2022 53% · 2023 79% — 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
57% of Mirabel Pictures's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
Mirabel Pictures draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $251k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Mirabel Pictures's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding Mirabel Pictures receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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.
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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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
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 Mirabel Pictures: 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 Mirabel Pictures?
- Mirabel Pictures (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $506,703 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($100,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mirabel Pictures have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $506,703 in grants to Mirabel Pictures, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mirabel Pictures?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mirabel Pictures find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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