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GALA CHORUSES INC

EIN 74-2586442 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$3,489,701
Expenses 2024
$2,315,103

Program services were 88.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6BZ
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 346

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

GALA Choruses is a vibrant and collaborative community organization that supports guides and inspires LGBTQ+ identified choruses and their allies to leverage the liberating power of singing together to create a more harmonious and equitable society for all.

Activities or mission (Part I)

GALA Choruses leads the North American gay choral movement. We assist emerging choruses and facilitate networking and training for established groups. Our signature event is our quadrennial festival which brings together over 150 choruses and 7000 singers for the worlds largest LGBTQ choral event.

  • GALA produces a quadrennial music festival for its member choruses which attracts over 150 performing arts groups with nearly 7000 singers. The most recent festival was held in Minneapolis in July 2024.

    Expenses $1,938,152 · Grants $209,291 · Revenue $3,368,044

  • GALA produces a Leadership Symposium annually except in the year of festival.

    Expenses $429

  • GALA provides a free consulting service for its member choruses referred to as the GALA 411 program. The advisors available under the program are highly experienced individuals in the areas of artistic excellence board and other administrative matters and equity access and belonging programs. The consultants are available for phone or virtual consultations or in-person meetings or retreats. GALA pays for the adivsors time; if travel is required the member chorus pays for the travel and lodging expenses. During 2023 eleven of our member choruses utilized the 411 program.

    Expenses $36,637

  • Other programs includes an extensive online resource center a new member chorus support program and a youth services program.

    Expenses $82,815

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Maria Elena Grant

    President

    Total calculated
    $2,500
    From this org
    $2,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Justin Fyala

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Michael McDonald

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jeff Smith

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jeff Chapdelaine

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Lane

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joseph Nadeau

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Oscar Urtusastegui

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steve Milloy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Dean

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kristen Stinnett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carol Paskulin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Abdullah Hall

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brayton Bollenbacher

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Miriam Davidson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tim Blanchard-Modisette

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eric Dickerson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,489,701
    Expenses
    $2,315,103
    Contributions
    $566,081
    Grants paid
    $209,291
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $821,889
    Expenses
    $626,971
    Contributions
    $746,178
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $229,528
    Expenses
    $494,339
    Contributions
    $241,695
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $339,129
    Expenses
    $337,965
    Assets (EOY)
    $787,400

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $831,660
    Expenses
    $460,795
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,366,886

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.