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GAPA FUND

GAPA FUND (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,228 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$39k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$153k
Net assets
$163k
2/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 88%
01What it does

What Gapa Fund does

Mission

509(a)(2) / 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity providing cultural and arts programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Gay Asian Pacific Alliance, dba GAPA / FEIN 94-3096112. GAPA is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit established in 1988 for social welfare programming in service to LGBTQ+ Asian and Pacific Islander American communities. GAPA FUND serves as a fiscal sponsor and maintains GAPA's charitable funding. GAPA resumed its programming, including its annual banquet program, annual community variety show, and various smaller events to engage the community

    $234 spent
    2% of program spending
  2. GAPA Men's Chorus. The men's choral program consists of a musical director, an accompanist, and ~30 singers. GAPA Men's Chorus participated in community events, concert and an international festival in 2025.

    $9,145 spentof which $7,296 as grants
    98% of program spending
  3. GAPA Theatre. The theatre program consists of an artistic director and ~15 performing artists, crew, and writers. In 2025, the program provided workshops that culminated in a theatrical production.

    $0 spentof which $2,200 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,379.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($115k) Expenses 100 ($3k) Net assets 100 ($167k)2022 Revenue 59 ($68k) Expenses 1633 ($50k) Net assets 111 ($184k)2023 Revenue 37 ($42k) Expenses 2513 ($77k) Net assets 90 ($149k)2024 Revenue 34 ($39k) Expenses 1315 ($40k) Net assets 89 ($148k)2025 Revenue 34 ($39k) Expenses 783 ($24k) Net assets 98 ($163k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (34)Expenses (783)Net assets (98)Peer revenue range

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 $184k to $149k (−19%).

$167k
$184k
$149k
$148k
$163k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of GAPA FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,450 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$112k
’21
$18k
’22
−$35k
’23
−$1k
’24
$15k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Randall Kikukawa

Chair & Artistic Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $20k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 GAPA FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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

GAPA FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 GAPA FUND.

66%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — 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

20% of GAPA FUND's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

79% of GAPA FUND'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from California funders.

NJ
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GAPA FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 695 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−24% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 695 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like GAPA FUND

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GAPA FUND: 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 GAPA FUND?
GAPA FUND (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,228 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GAPA FUND have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $153,228 in grants to GAPA FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GAPA FUND?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GAPA FUND 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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