Washington · Nonprofit
GAGE ACADEMY OF ART
GAGE ACADEMY OF ART (Washington) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,918,544 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,228,850). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Gage Academy of Art does
Mission
Gage educates, enriches, & transforms our community through the visual arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult programs: gage programs offer something for everyone interested in the advancement of their personal, technical, and artistic goals. Programs for adults focus on the practical applications of painting, drawing, and sculpture, exploring both techniques and the aesthetic issues of art-making with a proven framework to accelerate growth. This includes the distinguished atelier program, which includes 7 programs both full and part-time, in which students work throughout the academic year under the tutelage of a master artist. This prepares artists to launch a professional career or pursue a higher education arts degree. Gage also offers 5 and 10-week classes as well as weekend and weeklong arts workshops throughout the calendar year for students wanting to pursue art as avocation or a supplement to their work in other creative industries.
$1,600,760 spentof which $133,416 as grants$1,392,154 earned by the program74% of program spendingYouth programs: gage offers young artists various avenues to engage young artists at various and pivotal phases in their art-making pursuits. Programs included classes offered throughout the calendar year in a range of visual arts media and styles including drawing, digital animation, printmaking, sculpture, silkscreen, collage, and painting. In the summer, multiple camps for youth (ages 7-12) and teens (ages 13-18) provide fun and intensive all day art-making experiences often paired with movement activities such as parkour, capoeira, yoga, and dance. Gage's signature program for teens, the teen art studio, is a free drop-in program that provides a safe and inclusive community for young people age 13-19 every friday night in three locations: gage campus in capitol hill, at bellevue art museum, and in partnership with seamar museum of chicano/alatino/a culture in south park catering to spanish speaking youth.
$430,431 spent$311,438 earned by the program20% of program spendingFee-for-service programs: gage partners with corporations, schools, and higher education to provide highly trained art instructors to teach at these insitutions art education programs. Currently gage offers instructors to amazon's expressions program, summit public schools, and to antioch university's undergraduate art program. The institutions pay a fee that covers the cost of the instructors, any supplies, and administrative overhead.
$142,534 spent$68,346 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,173,725.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3.7M to $8.1M (+117%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 12% · 2022 18% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of GAGE ACADEMY OF ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Kathleen Allen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $39k → $667k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 GAGE ACADEMY OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
GAGE ACADEMY OF ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 GAGE ACADEMY OF ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 43% · 2019 29% · 2020 19% · 2021 16% · 2022 28% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
52% of GAGE ACADEMY OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of GAGE ACADEMY OF ART's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
GAGE ACADEMY OF ART runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GAGE ACADEMY OF ART
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GAGE ACADEMY OF ART?
- GAGE ACADEMY OF ART (Washington) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,918,544 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,228,850). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GAGE ACADEMY OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,918,544 in grants to GAGE ACADEMY OF ART, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAGE ACADEMY OF ART?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,228,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAGE ACADEMY OF ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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