Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS
GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,654,757 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($596,346). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Gala Inc Grupo de Artistas Latino Americanos does
Mission
Gala preserves and promotes hispanic art and culture through a diverse program of bilingual theater productions, music, dance and children's theater, as well as training programs for young and emerging artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artistic season productions:gala presents 4 major season productions per year, including contemporary and classical spanish and latin american drama and original, commissioned musicals. Each production is rehearsed for six to eight weeks and performed for a four to five-week period. Over the course of the year, gala engages over 150 artists in the creation, production, and performance of work. Gala's season productions reach over 19,000 audience members per year, including a large student audience. School matinee programs for high schools are conducted on weekdays and recently represented 15% (approximate) of all ticket sales. For plays performed in spanish, gala projects subtitles with english translation, and for english language productions, we project spanish subtitles, thus making all of the work accessible to a broad audience. Students and teachers are provided with bilingual educational materials on the play and its historical context, thus encouraging teachers to include hispanic literature in the standard curriculum. Gala's artistic programs introduce a wide non-latino audience to a culture with which they may not be familiar, and instill pride among latinos in their…
$1,608,387 spent$344,379 earned by the program76% of program spendingContracted servcies:gala artists are contracted by non-profit organizations, schools and churches for cultural events, performances, and activities.local schools also contract dancers or performers who work with gala, such as with the aparicio flamenco dance company, to perform special programs.
$201,914 spent$104,277 earned by the program10% of program spendingEducation and training:gala is devoted to the training, support and growth of minority artists. Gala offers performing opportunities and training for young people through an ongoing after-school workshop program targeting at-risk latino youth ages 13-17. Gala offers on-the-job experience and training for college and high school students in the areas of arts administration, technical theater, and production.
$162,689 spent8% of program spendingPublic relations
$151,484 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,124,474.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.8M to $5.0M (+33%).
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 22% · 2018 23% · 2019 16% · 2020 59% · 2021 61% · 2022 46% · 2023 35% · 2024 27% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS’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. 4 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
Rebecca Medrano
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $140k → $333k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 29% · 2019 33% · 2020 51% · 2021 47% · 2022 26% · 2023 23% — 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
43% of GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $922k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS?
- GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,654,757 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($596,346). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $3,654,757 in grants to GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $596,346 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 42 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