Mockingbird Incubator
4908 York Blvd.
Los Angeles, California 90042
(626) 272-5802
Website: http://www.mockingbirdincubator.org
Contact:
Jessica Payne
Executive Director
info@mockingbirdincubator.org
Year organization became a 501(c)(3): 2019
Year of first fiscal sponsorship: 2020
Number of sponsored projects: 20
Fiscal sponsorship fee:
We charge a cost share of 10% of all funds received into your project account, up to 13% for certain federal grants that carry additional compliance requirements.
Eligibility criteria:
- Aligned mission values
- Type of service
- No government funding
- Other: We sponsor projects across the U.S doing community-rooted work. We welcome projects at every stage
Types of projects or services we sponsor:
- Arts and culture
- Disaster relief
- Economic development
- Environment/sustainable growth
- Food insecurity/Nutrition
- Homelessness
- LGBTQ
- Social services
- Women
- Youth development
- Other: We sponsor social-justice projects across the U.S. We sponsor projects that have a clear sense of what they’re working toward and a commitment to doing the work with integrity. We prioritize projects focused on closing gaps in services and removing barriers to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.
Services we offer projects:
- Bill paying
- Bookkeeping/accounting
- Human resource management
- Insurance
- Organizational development
- Payroll
- Tax reporting
- Other: Access to funding, administrative and payroll support, regulatory compliance, nonprofit education and ongoing learning, expert guidance
Based on Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways to Do It Right: Our model(s) of fiscal sponsorship are:
- Model A, Direct Project
Organization description:
Mockingbird Incubator is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that provides education and fiscal sponsorship to social justice projects across the U.S. We work with leaders who are building the organizations their communities need. We give nonprofits the operational knowledge and infrastructure to make that work more impactful. We believe the nonprofit sector benefits when organizations share a strong foundation. Our goal is to make sure projects understand the system they are operating in and build the knowledge to navigate it confidently and grow stronger over time.