North Carolina · Nonprofit
GAFA STUDIOS
GAFA STUDIOS (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,190 to it, the largest being GE AEROSPACE FOUNDATION ($12,190). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $254k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $110k
What Gafa Studios does
Mission
To provide lessons and development opportunities for dance students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided lessons and develpment opportunities related to the fine arts for dance students.
$250,520 spent$224,636 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $250,520.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $38k to $84k (+122%).
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.
1% of GAFA STUDIOS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Richard Dutka
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $690.
From the IRS filings of GAFA STUDIOS’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.
Where its funders are
GAFA STUDIOS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
GAFA STUDIOS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GAFA STUDIOS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GAFA STUDIOS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GAFA STUDIOS?
- GAFA STUDIOS (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,190 to it, the largest being GE AEROSPACE FOUNDATION ($12,190). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GAFA STUDIOS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,190 in grants to GAFA STUDIOS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAFA STUDIOS?
- GE AEROSPACE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAFA STUDIOS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing