California · Nonprofit
MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS
MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,500 to it, the largest being Gerbode Foundation ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Mixed Bag Productions does
Mission
To produce dance performance and dance instruction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
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).
$48,123 spentof which $50,000 as grants62% of program spendingDance 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).
$17,654 spent23% of program spendingThe "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)
$9,164 spent12% of program spendingDistribution 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.
$2,747 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,688.
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 2022 to 2023, from $43k to $58k (+36%).
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.
65% of MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS’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. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $29k.
From the IRS filings of MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS’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
MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 74% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS: 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 MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS?
- MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,500 to it, the largest being Gerbode Foundation ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $69,500 in grants to MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS?
- Gerbode Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIXED BAG PRODUCTIONS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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