California · Nonprofit
PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC
PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,800 to it, the largest being PALM SPRINGS MODERN COMMITTEE ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Auen Foundationshared funderslocal
- Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundationportfolio match
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
100% of PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $3k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of PRESERVATION MIRAGE 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
PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 80% · 2023 67% — 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
73% of PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC'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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 336 organizations that share them.
- The Auen Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 45 organizations near you
- Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calaveras Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montana History Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burning Man Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- BAR NI Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rapp Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leo Fontana Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nevada Humanities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
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 PRESERVATION MIRAGE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC?
- PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,800 to it, the largest being PALM SPRINGS MODERN COMMITTEE ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $12,800 in grants to PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC?
- PALM SPRINGS MODERN COMMITTEE is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESERVATION MIRAGE INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing