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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $397,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($160,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$403k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$398k
Net assets
$47k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What American Friends of the Art Gallery of Ontario Inc does

Mission

To support the maintenance and enrichment of public facilities and educational institutions such as the art gallery of ontario.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support the visual arts by encouraging active and outgoing support, help exempt art gallery entities involved in the virtual arts to build, strengthen and diversify their collections, and raising the profile of the art gallery of ontario.

    $426,061 spentof which $426,061 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $426,061.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($161k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($27k)2022 Revenue 1169 ($1.9M) Expenses 1357 ($1.9M) Net assets 48 ($13k)2023 Revenue 66 ($107k) Expenses 68 ($95k) Net assets 91 ($25k)2024 Revenue 214 ($346k) Expenses 206 ($288k) Net assets 305 ($82k)2025 Revenue 250 ($403k) Expenses 313 ($438k) Net assets 175 ($47k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (250)Expenses (313)Net assets (175)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $25k to $83k (+230%).

$27k
$13k
$25k
$83k
$48k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’21
−$14k
’22
$12k
’23
$58k
’24
−$35k
’25
1.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Robbie Cooper

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202220242025
Listed777
Joined··+0
No longer listed··0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $25k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO 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

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC.

40%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

40%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC?
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $397,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($160,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $397,500 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing