Maiden Voyage Media
Legal name: Maiden Voyage Productions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943191142
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6504832972
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $205,509
- Expenses
- $210,581
- Assets
- $19,960
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gail Evenari (President)
- Abby Ginzberg (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Gail Evenari (President)
- Abby Ginzberg (Vice President)
- Gail Silva (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Maiden Voyage Media fosters the growth of compassionate, informed and engaged citizens of the world through making films, doing service work and sharing interactions with diverse local and global communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program: The Future of Normal is a documentary film and impact campaign that explores neurodiversity through stories from people who are challenging our societys rigid standards of conformity - and envisioning a future where all brains belong. These expenses are for production contractors - camera sound assistance equipment etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - Revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.9%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 34%; rating input score 34
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.5%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -43.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 34.9% of revenue deployed · 34% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 1 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 41 current checks pass · 7 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesAccounting column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticIndividuals column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX InformationTechnology column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.