California · Nonprofit
GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,522,255 to it, the largest being Stanislaus Community Foundation ($2,016,103). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Gallo Center for the Arts Inc does
Mission
To enrich the quality of life in the central valley by providing an inspirational civic gathering place where regional, national, and international cultural activities illuminate, educate and entertain. The center celebrates the diversity of the central valley by offering an array of affordable cultural opportunities designed to appeal and be accessible to all. This is accomplished through programming that: 1) provides a venue for the area's leading performing arts organizations, 2) brings great performances from around the world to the area, 3) offers motivational arts education programs for youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The gallo center for the arts provides a venue for the area's leading performing arts organizations consisting of central west ballet, modesto community concert association, modesto performing arts, modesto symphony orchestra, townsend opera players and yes company.the center also brings great performances from around the world to the area. During the 2024/2025 season, the productions included official broadway touring productions, legendary rock groups, singers, comedians, speakers, and children's programs. In conjuction with the performances, the center offers motivating arts education programs for youth.
$8,875,503 spent$6,346,246 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,875,503.
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 2021 to 2022, from $40M to $44M (+9%).
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 7% · 2021 23% · 2022 37% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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. 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
Chad Hilligus
CEO
Board chair
Christina Gomez
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $273k → $477k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Central Valley Center for the Arts Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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
GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 50% · 2019 52% · 2020 71% · 2021 69% · 2022 58% · 2023 49% — 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
61% of GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
66% of GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M 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
GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC is better cushioned than half 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
Government funding GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$105k
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 GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Central Valley Center for the Arts Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC?
- GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,522,255 to it, the largest being Stanislaus Community Foundation ($2,016,103). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,522,255 in grants to GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC?
- Stanislaus Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,016,103 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC 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 27 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