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INSTALLATION GALLERY

INSTALLATION GALLERY (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,666 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$894k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$730k
Net assets
$532k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What Installation Gallery does

Mission

Installation Gallery is dedicated to the realization of binational collaborative arts partnerships among nonprofits and public institutions in the san diego/tijuana region. Installation Gallery's resources are focused on insite-a project that includes the exhibition of commissioned art in public spaces, education and community outreach programs, and residencies for curators and artists.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Expenses related to insite commonplaces commissions, exhibitions, and conferences; online archive and journals, and insite lab. An estimated 25,000 benefited from in-person and online programs.

    $479,762 spent$65,575 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $479,762.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($423k) Expenses 100 ($367k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2018 Revenue 110 ($465k) Expenses 116 ($427k) Net assets 154 ($109k)2019 Revenue 78 ($332k) Expenses 81 ($295k) Net assets 205 ($145k)2020 Revenue 47 ($198k) Expenses 56 ($207k) Net assets 192 ($136k)2021 Revenue 14 ($60k) Expenses 33 ($119k) Net assets 109 ($77k)2022 Revenue 50 ($210k) Expenses 42 ($153k) Net assets 190 ($135k)2023 Revenue 49 ($209k) Expenses 72 ($265k) Net assets 111 ($78k)2024 Revenue 135 ($572k) Expenses 131 ($480k) Net assets 240 ($170k)2025 Revenue 211 ($894k) Expenses 145 ($532k) Net assets 751 ($532k)
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Revenue (211)Expenses (145)Net assets (751)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 2024 to 2025, from $172k to $538k (+213%).

$175k
$109k
$148k
$137k
$81k
$155k
$116k
$172k
$538k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 8% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of INSTALLATION GALLERY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$57k
’17
$38k
’18
$36k
’19
−$9k
’20
−$59k
’21
$57k
’22
−$56k
’23
$92k
’24
$362k
’25
12
months of
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.

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No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $105k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 INSTALLATION GALLERY’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

INSTALLATION GALLERY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

58% 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 INSTALLATION GALLERY.

21%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 100% · 2022 49% · 2023 95% — 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

0% of INSTALLATION GALLERY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

61% of INSTALLATION GALLERY's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA

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

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’19
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $346k 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

INSTALLATION GALLERY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like INSTALLATION GALLERY

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTALLATION GALLERY: 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 INSTALLATION GALLERY?
INSTALLATION GALLERY (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,666 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INSTALLATION GALLERY have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $729,666 in grants to INSTALLATION GALLERY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INSTALLATION GALLERY?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INSTALLATION GALLERY 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