Gapa Fund

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
842621586
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4154830513
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$39,250
Expenses
$24,068
Assets
$163,112
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Randall Kikukawa (Chair & Artistic Director)
  • Oliver Cacananta (Treasurer, Board Director)
  • Dino Duazo (Manager & Board Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

509(a)(2) / 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity providing cultural and arts programs.

What it reported doing in 2025

Gay Asian Pacific Alliance, dba GAPA / FEIN 94-3096112. GAPA is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit established in 1988 for social welfare programming in service to LGBTQ+ Asian and Pacific Islander American communities. GAPA FUND serves as a fiscal sponsor and maintains GAPA's charitable funding. GAPA resumed its programming, including its annual banquet program, annual community variety show, and various smaller events to engage the community

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 30
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 80
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 23.9%; rating input score 24
  • Program expense ratio: 39%; rating input score 39

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 38.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.78; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -29.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 23.9% of revenue deployed · 39% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.