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KALA INSTITUTE

EIN 94-2372185 BERKELEY, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,444,254
Expenses 2024
$1,485,436

Program services were 60.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1000
Street
1060 HEINZ AVE

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

Kala Art Institute's mission is to help artists sustain their creative work over time through its Artist-in-Residence and Fellowship Programs, and to engage the community through exhibitions, public programs and education.

  • Artist-in-Residence Program: Kala Institute offers an Artist-in-Residence program for artists working in various printmaking techniques, photo-processes, book arts and digital media including video production. Artist residency applications are accepted online three times per year. Considerations for acceptance are conceptual creativity and technical knowledge. Resident artists receive year-round 24-hour access to Kala's facilities and participation in a vital, international artistic community. Fellowships: For over 35 years, Kala Institute has annually awarded artists time, space, and financial support for their work through the Kala Fellowship award. The Kala Fellowship award is an artist residency program accepting applications from artists from the U.S. and around the world. Special initiates include parent artists, public art, media arts, programs for veterans, and more.

    Expenses $382,302 · Grants $14,550 · Revenue $218,639

  • Education & Community, Exhibitions and Public Programs: Kala's education programs include over 100 art classes and workshops each year for adults and youth. Youth art education programs include Artists-In-Schools, summer art camp, after school and teen art studio, field trips for local public schools. Additional programs include exhibitions and public programs including artist talks, film screenings, panel discussions, and performances. Through the Kala Art Gallery, Kala Institute not only exhibits and promotes the artists who participate in its artist residency and also offers free and accessible educational programs for the community. Kala also provides custom printing services. A number of artists have worked at Kala to create and publish prints on a variety of materials.

    Expenses $285,279 · Grants $20 · Revenue $344,980

  • Exhibitions and Public Programs: Through the Kala Art Gallery, Kala Institute not only exhibits and promotes the artists who participate in lectures and discussions pertaining to the arts, and exhibits and sells the work of internationally recognized artists. The gallery is also used to host panel discussions, artist talks, and performances by visual, sound and performance artists. This includes off-site curatorial work in downtown Berkeley, Milvia Windows. Through its Arts Sales and Consulting Program, Kala Institute markets and supports exceptional local, national and international artists. Kala Institutes experienced staff works with customers to assist them in the selection of art and works to place in private, corporate, municipal and museum collections.

    Expenses $236,964 · Revenue $16,123

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.

  • Ellen Lake

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $87,126
    From this org
    $81,126
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,000
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mayumi Hamanaka

    Artistic Dir.

    Total calculated
    $86,686
    From this org
    $79,486
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,200
    Hours/week
    40

  • Perrin Meyer

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Davis Riemer

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Julie McCray

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Bruce Helmberger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sylvia Solochek Walters

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kelley Berg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Alice Beasley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Suzanne Tan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Maya Hara

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Archana Horsting

    Founding Dir

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jules Roman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sue Kubly

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Carol Ladewig

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Manny Lopez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Amrita Singhal

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jimin Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lucy Puls

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ronnie Sampson

    Director

    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
    $1,444,254
    Expenses
    $1,485,436
    Contributions
    $674,800
    Grants paid
    $14,570
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,554,154
    Expenses
    $1,536,686
    Contributions
    $748,298
    Grants paid
    $31,850
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,551,150
    Expenses
    $1,469,010
    Contributions
    $867,741
    Grants paid
    $50,900

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
    $1,396,279
    Expenses
    $1,218,707
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,143,049

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,106,116
    Expenses
    $1,048,066
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,891,086

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,321,326
    Expenses
    $1,274,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,305,689

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,016,840
    Expenses
    $1,221,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,300,360

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,115,191
    Expenses
    $1,184,112
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,403,332

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,198,258
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,454,719

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,217,905
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,768,803

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,204,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,731,495

  • 2009 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,155,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,712,235

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 February 2022, reinstated 15 February 2022.

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.