Mabou Mines Development Foundation Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

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 house, by Marcella Murray, David Neumann, and Tei Blow that extended the ensembles years-long exploration of race and relationship. Performances Jan 8-16, 2025. The piece toured to Carolina Performing Arts Feb. 27-28, 2025.FROM THE ARCHIVE: Moi-mme - Long lost sole feature film of the late avant-garde theater legend Lee Breuer (1937-2021). Shot in 1968 in Paris and abandoned later that year, the project was resurrected by Breuers son, filmmaker Mojo Lorwin, who began restoring and re-imagining the unfinished film in the last year of his fathers life. February 27, 2025 @ L'Alliance Florence Gould TheaterWORLD PREMIERES: RAINBIRD an opera based on the novel Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room by Janet Frame. Created by: Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel. Co-produced by: Mabou Mines, Experiments in Opera & Restless NYC. Performances April 16-20, 2025This Like a Dream Keeps Other Time - By Visual Artist Nene Humphrey in collaboration with Mallory Catlett. Co-produced by Mabou Mines. The piece invites the audience to share in a liminal space where loss is transformed into beauty, joy, and connection through song, visual art, and movement. The piece is a celebration of life, memory, and the healing power of communityone that challenges the boundaries between dream and reality, personal and collective experience. Performances May 15-18, 2025IN DEVELOPMENT: Barcelona Map of Shadows, an opera adaptation of a play by Spanish playwright Lluissa Cunille, directed by Mallory Catlett, music composed by Mika Karlsson and dramaturg Anton Pujol. Created in collaboration with: International Contemporary Ensemble. Co-produced by Mabou Mines & American Opera Projects in partnership with The Skirball Center.Etudes by Carl Hancock Rux with Jocelyn Clarke dramaturg. creates a philosophical convening of characters engaged in a recalling of crimes against humanity and its effect on their personal, historical and psychological development as they endeavor to unlearn the language and varying rituals of whiteness a narrative that centers white people, particularly white men, no matter the deadly cost and consequence to all women and to global Black and Brown people.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 68.1%; rating input score 68
• Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
• Fundraising efficiency: $16.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings