Mirabel Pictures

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460656106
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Film, Video

Reported finances

Revenue
$18,750
Expenses
$203,368
Assets
$228,911
Liabilities
$554,686

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Edward Banker White III (President)

People named in this filing

  • Edward Banker White III (President)
  • Anna Fitch (Treasurer/Sec.)
  • Jonathan Halperin (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

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

What it reported doing in 2024

Mirabel 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 and professional development. In 2016, we expanded our reach in the West African subregion by launching The WeOwnTV Filmmaker Fellowship, a film fund and professional development program supporting the production of independent documentaries directed by West African filmmakers. We also began a collaborative producing initiative that focuses on creating opportunities for filmmakers from underrepresented communities and are partnered with both US-based and international teams on a small collection of impressive projects.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -984.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.42; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 50.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $179K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.