California · Nonprofit
TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC
TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,391 to it, the largest being JOHN BURTON HARTER FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $678k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $-25086
What Tom of Finland Foundation Inc does
Mission
Tom of finland foundation, inc. (toff) is dedicated to protect, preserve, document and educate the public about erotic art and erotic artists. Toff shall continue to encourage the work of erotic visual artists regardless of race, creed, religion, gender, sexual identity, medium of expression or any other censoring criteria.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
PUBLIC EDUCATION:Foundation hosted more than 60 public events in 2024 that includes our Art & Culture Festival ,our longest running educational program that provided a weekend long set of public talks, films, performances and exhibition and were presented in London, Berlin, Palm Springs and Los Angeles. Most foundation events are free or charge or accessible with modest ticketing fees. Foundation presents other public tours of TOM House and of gallery, museum and artist studios.
$335,330 spent65% of program spendingARCHIVE, PERMANENT COLLECTIONS AND LIBRARY, EXHIBITIONS:A repository of over a century of LGBTQ+ artmaking and culture, the Foundation stewards rich historical and contemporary collections of more than 11,000 unique artworks created by more than 700+ queer artists many of whose legacies are preserved nowhere else and include archival materials and a reference library. Highlights include creative practices cut short by the AIDS crisis and are open by appointment to students, scholars, researchers, artists.
$145,518 spent28% of program spendingARTIST EDUCATION:Selected through a critical vetting process, visiting artists reside at TOM House for 3 months and benefit from the opportunity to engage with the Foundations collection and present their final project as a public program. Nine artists participated in 2023 representing the UK, US, Thailand, China, Poland. Another artist education program is our monthly Life Drawing Sessions.
$38,999 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $519,847.
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 2020 to 2021, from $333k to $512k (+54%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Edward Cella
CEO
Board chair
R Ayita Okyne
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $113.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 TOM OF FINLAND 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
TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 66% · 2021 100% · 2022 86% · 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
25% of TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.
Against its field
TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 TOM OF FINLAND 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 TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC?
- TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,391 to it, the largest being JOHN BURTON HARTER FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $70,391 in grants to TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC?
- JOHN BURTON HARTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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