California · Nonprofit
LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $911,398 to it, the largest being BORGENICHT FOUNDATION INC ($131,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $911k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Los Gatos Museum Association does
Mission
Engaging community at the intersection of art, history and education through innovative, locally connected and globally relevant exhibits, programs and experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Installation and hosting of rotating art museum exhibition, history exhibition, including an annual high school juried exhibition, artnow. The museum provides an array of innovative education experiences in art and history through artist talk, workshops, lectures, public tours, and community days. Exhibitions are globally connected and locally connected and include the work of artists both locally and nationally, with a strong emphasis on artists from the south bay and greater san francisco bay area. The museum houses and stewards a permanent art and hitory collection focusing on the histroy of los gatos and the surrounding areas.
$439,287 spent$6,696 earned by the program95% of program spendingProviding education through variety of youth educational opportunities including the museum explorer program which allows children to examine, experience and understand local history and artwork on an intimate level. The program is designed in accordance with the california state curriculum standards to provide instruction on the elements of art including style, media and process. It meets curriculum standards in language arts, social studies, and art. The program serves over 1,000 educators and students ages k-12, in santa clara county. Scholarships are provided to title 1 schools. In the summer, the museum partners with los gatos saratoga recreation to host the aspiring artist footbridge mural camp, teaching students about history and art to create a mural capturing "life in los gatos" which is displayed on a walking bridge in town. The museum hosts a variety of other youth programs that explore topics relating to art and history.
$25,137 spent$20,536 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $464,424.
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.
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 $653k to $1.5M (+123%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Kimberly Snyder
Executive director
Board chair
Julie Micallef
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $89k → $121k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION’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
LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
53% 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 LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 42% · 2019 49% · 2020 20% · 2021 22% · 2022 21% · 2023 21% — 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
47% of LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
62% of LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $335k 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.
Government funding LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $381k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$301k
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
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 LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: 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 LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
- LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $911,398 to it, the largest being BORGENICHT FOUNDATION INC ($131,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $911,398 in grants to LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
- BORGENICHT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $131,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 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 26 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