North Dakota · Nonprofit
The Capital Gallery Society
The Capital Gallery Society (North Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,083 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $501k
What The Capital Gallery Society does
Mission
The mission of The Capital Gallery Society is Celebrating History, Art, and Culture! through art galleries and educational outreach.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024 the Capital Gallery Society saw the hiring of its second Executive Director in July. This move was intended to bring a new sense of leadership and strong direction towards continuing the Gallerys mission of Celebrating Art, History, and Culture.EXHIBITSThe Gallery hosts a new exhibit about every 2 months. Every exhibit is free to the public five days per week, and is meant to offer a diverse array of art and offerings to our community, reflecting the wide range of styles and works present in our local art market.January/February began with a preview show with a selection of works from each artist being featured throughout the year. This time of year is always the slowest for art sales, and the goal of this show was to prevent any single artist from having to feature during a notoriously difficult time to sell in Bismarck. Instead each artist had the chance to display a teaser of their upcoming show while also netting some sales. In February, we helped host Giving Hearts Day. They hosted their event in an adjacent space to the Gallery, and we opened our space up for their attendees to use. One of our artists supplied free Giving Hearts Day prints to help promote the…
$144,705 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $144,705.
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 $825k to $567k (−31%).
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 7% · 2020 21% · 2022 2% · 2023 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of The Capital Gallery Society’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 7 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.
Board chair
Jim Christianson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $15k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 The Capital Gallery Society’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
The Capital Gallery Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 The Capital Gallery Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 58% · 2020 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.
Where its funders are
77% of The Capital Gallery Society's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
The Capital Gallery Society's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding The Capital Gallery Society receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- Department of the Interior$30k
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 The Capital Gallery Society
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Capital Gallery Society: 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 The Capital Gallery Society?
- The Capital Gallery Society (North Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,083 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Capital Gallery Society have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $43,083 in grants to The Capital Gallery Society.
- Who is the largest funder of The Capital Gallery Society?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Capital Gallery Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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