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GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION

GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,317 to it, the largest being EDITH CURTIS ARMSTRONG AND FLORENCE E CURTIS FOUNDATION ($123,217). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$74k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$182k
Grants received
$587k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%

Against its field

GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve23.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−16% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($290k) Expenses 100 ($243k) Net assets 100 ($533k)2018 Revenue 56 ($163k) Expenses 56 ($136k) Net assets 105 ($560k)2019 Revenue 27 ($78k) Expenses 28 ($68k) Net assets 107 ($569k)2020 Revenue 21 ($60k) Expenses 26 ($62k) Net assets 106 ($567k)2021 Revenue 29 ($84k) Expenses 29 ($72k) Net assets 109 ($579k)2022 Revenue 28 ($83k) Expenses 34 ($83k) Net assets 109 ($578k)2023 Revenue 20 ($57k) Expenses 25 ($60k) Net assets 108 ($576k)2025 Revenue 26 ($74k) Expenses 32 ($77k) Net assets 110 ($587k)
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Revenue (26)Expenses (32)Net assets (110)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,526 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
17
$27k
18
$10k
19
$2k
20
$12k
21
$504
22
$3k
23
$3k
25
24
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

32% 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 GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION.

68%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states in all.

IL
IA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Iowa

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

31%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION?
GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,317 to it, the largest being EDITH CURTIS ARMSTRONG AND FLORENCE E CURTIS FOUNDATION ($123,217). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $182,317 in grants to GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION?
EDITH CURTIS ARMSTRONG AND FLORENCE E CURTIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $123,217 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GATEWAY AREA FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing