Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GALA CHORUSES I INC
GALA CHORUSES I INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $492,299 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($396,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $492k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Gala Choruses I Inc does
Mission
GALA Choruses is a vibrant and collaborative community organization that supports guides and inspires LGBTQ+ identified choruses and their allies to leverage the liberating power of singing together to create a more harmonious and equitable society for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
GALA produces a quadrennial music festival for its member choruses which attracts over 150 performing arts groups with nearly 7000 singers. The most recent festival was held in Minneapolis in July 2024.
$223,485 spent57% of program spendingGALA produces a Leadership Symposium annually except in the year of festival. The 2023 Leadership Symposium was held online so that all of our member choruses could participate regardless of financial circumstances. Workshops were offered on a variety of board development fundraising and planning topics led by Toni Capra a BoardSource certified instructor.
$20,021 spent$29,108 earned by the program5% of program spendingGALA provides a free consulting service for its member choruses referred to as the GALA 411 program. The advisors available under the program are highly experienced individuals in the areas of artistic excellence board and other administrative matters and equity access and belonging programs. The consultants are available for phone or virtual consultations or in-person meetings or retreats. GALA pays for the adivsors time; if travel is required the member chorus pays for the travel and lodging expenses. During 2023 eleven of our member choruses utilized the 411 program.
$43,370 spent11% of program spendingOther progrms includes a best practices program an extensive online resource center a new member chorus support program and a youth services program.
$106,496 spent27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $393,372.
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 2022 to 2023, from $591k to $2.1M (+260%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of GALA CHORUSES I INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $92k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 GALA CHORUSES I 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
GALA CHORUSES I INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 GALA CHORUSES I INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 93% · 2022 96% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of GALA CHORUSES I INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
87% of GALA CHORUSES I INC'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 $63k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $429k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
GALA CHORUSES I INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GALA CHORUSES I INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GALA CHORUSES I INC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GALA CHORUSES I INC?
- GALA CHORUSES I INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $492,299 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($396,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GALA CHORUSES I INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $492,299 in grants to GALA CHORUSES I INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GALA CHORUSES I INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $396,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GALA CHORUSES I INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 13 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