Ohio · Nonprofit
THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC
THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,451,903 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION PLUS INC ($354,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What The Gala of Hope Foundation Inc does
Mission
The gala of hope foundation is a nonprofit that raises funds and provides grants to advance cancer diagnosis and treatment, support patients and families, improve access to care, and fund local research and patient advocacy efforts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provides direct financial assistance to cancer patients across a 14-county region to address basic needs during treatment, including housing, utilities, transportation, groceries, and other essential expenses. Payments were made directly to vendors based on referrals from healthcare partners. In 2025, provided $368,566 in assistance to 296 patients, supporting 587 household members. This included targeted support through special initiatives such as veteran assistance ($23,914; 150 individuals served) and holiday assistance for patients and families ($16,696; 30 patients and 95 family members served).
$368,566 spent32% of program spendingAwards competitive grants to eligible nonprofit organizations to support cancer-related services, access to care, and research initiatives within the region. In 2025, funded 6 grants supporting programs including lymphedema treatment supplies, oncology nutrition services, community-based cancer screenings, early diagnosis and intervention for lung cancer, and research initiatives such as a living biobank and brain cancer studies.
$781,110 spentof which $781,110 as grants68% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,149,676.
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 2023 to 2024, from $814k to $1.7M (+110%).
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.
97% of THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Morgan Ednie
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5k → $170k.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION 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
THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
82% 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 GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 32% · 2019 50% · 2020 45% · 2021 59% · 2022 55% · 2023 15% — 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
38% of THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION 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
99% of THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $384k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC: 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 GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,451,903 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION PLUS INC ($354,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,451,903 in grants to THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC?
- DAYTON FOUNDATION PLUS INC is the largest funder on record, with $354,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GALA OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing