Washington · Nonprofit
CITY GATES MINISTRIES
CITY GATES MINISTRIES (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,176 to it, the largest being The Roots Community Church ($49,863). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $312k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $146k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What City Gates Ministries does
Mission
Community outreach to prevent homelessness. Answer an average of forty calls per week from community members in need; interview, consult, advise and assist with temporary housing, utility, furniture and food
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
010 street lights adult ministry van includes adult season appropriate clothing. Childrens ministry van includes season appropriate clothing, books, toys, diapers, wipes and children needs. Hygiene van provides hygiene products; upstreet kids truck has children related materials and essentials. All vans are stocked weekly to meet individual community needs in downtown olympia washington
$37,456 spentof which $20,950 as grants$97,570 earned by the program17% of program spending020 mentorship discipleship answers phones and email requests, conducts interviews to evaluate needs, budget and resources, and assists in temporary crisis for food, housing, medical dental vision, utilities, transportation and repairs. Furniture & household needs ministry; the furniture truck picks up donations of furniture & household goods to stage and deliver to those in need
$39,051 spent$114,000 earned by the program17% of program spending030 hagen holiday annual food drive and the city gates annual live & silent auction increase community awareness and encourage community partnerships. These two events focus on serving the needs throughout winter
$148,572 spent$72,049 earned by the program66% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,079.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $485k to $0 (−100%).
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.
97% of CITY GATES MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $5k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 CITY GATES MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 12 funders by total. 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
CITY GATES MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 CITY GATES MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 42% · 2021 57% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
60% of CITY GATES MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
75% of CITY GATES MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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
CITY GATES MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CITY GATES MINISTRIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY GATES MINISTRIES: 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 CITY GATES MINISTRIES?
- CITY GATES MINISTRIES (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,176 to it, the largest being The Roots Community Church ($49,863). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITY GATES MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $146,176 in grants to CITY GATES MINISTRIES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY GATES MINISTRIES?
- The Roots Community Church is the largest funder on record, with $49,863 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY GATES MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 12 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