California · Nonprofit
GALLERY ROUTE ONE
GALLERY ROUTE ONE (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,959 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $227k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $387k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Gallery Route One does
Mission
Gro (Gallery Route One) is a nonprofit, community based, artist-run organization which provides professional exhibition space for visual artists in a rural setting. The gallery serves its local and regional communities by presenting varied exhibitions of contemporary art, and offers educational programs and related events such as lectures, performances and workshops. The organization adheres to a policy of equal access to artists from multi ethnic backgrounds and is committed to assisting artists from diverse backgrounds in presenting their work to the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
From July October, 2024, GRO organized a monthly Point Reyes Art Walk thatwas funded by a grant from the West Marin Fund, with businesses throughoutdowntown Point Reyes participating. This was followed by the Path of Lightsevent in December.In August-September,2024, we held our annual Box Show silent auctionfundraiser.From August December we mounted 10 exhibitions in our galleries.In September we held a fundraiser for our Fellowship Program at the home of adonor. We then began working with this donor on a strategic plan to build ourfinancial stability.In October we mounted a matching gift fundraiser to raise $25,000 with a $12,500match from a donor.In September we began a collaboration Called Wills for West Marin with theDance Palace, Mesa Rufuge, West Marin Senior Services and Community LandTrust of West Marin to present a series of workshops about the value of naming anonprofit in your Will.From September 2024-November 2024, we hosted 2 online productions of theArtists Exchange in which host, Pamela Blotner finds 2 artists who share theirwork and engage in conversation. The audience made up of mostly artists gatherto learn about the artists concepts and processes, and then…
$148,273 spentof which $5,835 as grants$15,204 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $148,273.
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 $72k to $36k (−50%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of GALLERY ROUTE ONE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $76k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 GALLERY ROUTE ONE’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
GALLERY ROUTE ONE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
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 GALLERY ROUTE ONE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 86% · 2020 46% · 2021 66% · 2022 73% · 2023 66% — 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
83% of GALLERY ROUTE ONE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
59% of GALLERY ROUTE ONE'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 $157k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $230k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GALLERY ROUTE ONE's revenue grew 72% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GALLERY ROUTE ONE: 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 GALLERY ROUTE ONE?
- GALLERY ROUTE ONE (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,959 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GALLERY ROUTE ONE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $386,959 in grants to GALLERY ROUTE ONE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GALLERY ROUTE ONE?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GALLERY ROUTE ONE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 9 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