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FRIENDS OF@GALA

EIN 81-2014188 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$925,609
Expenses 2024
$1,140,093

Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B12
Classification
1000
Street
3585 S VERMONT AVE 18587

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

Friends of GALA (FoGALA) is solving economic and gender disparities that exist within STEM fields today, by removing interpersonal, academic and financial barriers for all girls who attend Girls Academic Leadership Academy.Our vision is to remove personal and educational barriers to achievement by opening access to resources, mentors and opportunities for girls, 6th through 12th grade, living in Los Angeles. We achieve this by raising awareness, securing funds, advocating for public all-girls education in STEM, and creating connections for industry leaders to directly impact their future.GALAs vision is to address the projected workforce shortfall of engineers and scientists in the United States, and the ongoing gender and racial inequities in STEM fields. Recognizing that all-girls schools boost the academic achievement and self-confidence of young women in general, and in STEM education in particular, GALA is designed to provide 6th-12th grade girls with a clear pathway to college an

  • Operations: FoGALA provides operations support in the form of professional development, including travel to conferences; campus beautification; admissions staff and school tours; teacher appreciation gifts and luncheons; website software; events coordinator; campus events; and office supplies.

    Expenses $440,058

  • Student Support: Other program expenses include student support in the form of providing Chromebooks with cases to every student; covering AP testing fees; providing Princeton Review SAT prep for all of our juniors; field trips to the Aquarium of the Pacific, JA Finance Park, LA City Hall, and engineering competitions among others; supplies for Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) and Special Education (RSP); summer school, including our Science Sleuths camp, middle and high school math enrichment programs, and PE; Graduation; and our CIF Athletics program.

    Expenses $350,343

  • Arts & Humanities: FoGALA provides support in the form of partial salaries for the Architecture and Dance teachers; Broadcast cameras, wireless mics, lighting, and soundboard; 3D printer and filament for Architecture; 6 MacBooks with digital audio stations for the music program; registration and transportation to the Choral Music Festival; Graphic Arts computer and projector; and digital cameras for the Yearbook elective.

    Expenses $120,175

  • Science Provided cutting-edge science curriculum and equipment for middle school and high school classes, including drones for our Aerospace elective and rockets for Engineering. Supported the Robotics teams with equipment and registered them in the First Robotics tournament where they advanced to the regionals and won the Inspire Award the highest all-round award in the competition. Also supported new classes, like Bio-Medical and Sports Medicine.

    Expenses $45,576

  • Math and Engineering: FoGALA provided graphing calculators to all high school math students to provide equal access to math curriculum and testing requirements. For engineering, the students received a class set of rockets and a field trip to Cal State Long Beach Society of Women Engineers Girls Day.

    Expenses $17,120

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Katherine Eshaghoff

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Chelsea Gilmore

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Danielle Fogel

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Angela Macias

    Asst Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mazi O'Leary

    Purchaser

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sharis Peters

    Purchaser

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Shanon Trygstad

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Tiffany Morrison

    External Comm

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Twanda Beo

    Dir Fundraising

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jody Giles

    Dir Development

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dan Nieman

    Dir Grants

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Carla Ascarza

    Dir Ops

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Gwendolyn Soldwisch

    Asst Dir Ops

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Chris Bensch

    Onsite Ops

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $925,609
    Expenses
    $1,140,093
    Contributions
    $872,342
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,073,438
    Expenses
    $674,491
    Contributions
    $974,733
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $991,827
    Expenses
    $649,021
    Contributions
    $911,525
    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
    $686,508
    Expenses
    $610,136
    Assets (EOY)
    $948,528

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $767,098
    Expenses
    $375,821
    Assets (EOY)
    $798,390

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $518,437
    Expenses
    $414,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $392,949

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $307,190
    Expenses
    $81,732
    Assets (EOY)
    $282,109

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $186,355
    Expenses
    $262,549
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,779

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $228,095
    Expenses
    $127,914
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,055

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.