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GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES

GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$2.4M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$0
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Gateway Community Services does

Mission

To provide quality comprehensive community focused recovery based services addressing the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Gateway Community Services is an outpatient counseling center specializing in the management and treatment of substance use disorders, including mental health counseling for adults and adolescents. Treatment programs include but are not limited to: outpatient - level one: intensive outpatient - level two; minor in possession for youths who have incurred an initial life consequence as a result of drug or alcohol use; prime for life for individuals who have been convicted of driving under the influence of drugs/alcohol or charged with misdemeanor dangerous drug, title iv-parenting program and peer support programming.

    $1,186,437 spent$686,380 earned by the program
    81% of program spending
  2. Blue thunder lodge is a clinically managed low intensity residential, eight bed facility in great falls, montana for men who have a substance use disorder and require a structured, safe, and drug-free living environment. The facility combines individual substance use disorder treatment with assistance transitioning back to independent living in the community and development of life-long recovery skills in a residential therapeutic community that encourages peer support, personal insight and growth. Eligible applicants must be a resident of montana, be at least 18 years of age, fall below 200% of the federal poverty level, be capable of obtaining employment while residing in the home and meet clinical criteria for asam 3.1 level of care.

    $134,444 spent$30,700 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  3. The selene house (formerly the kalispell women's recovery home) is a clinically managed low intensity residential, eight bed facility in kalispell, montana for women who have a substance use disorder and require a structured, safe, and drug-free living environment. As of june 24, 2019, the facility is operated by gateway (it was formerly operated under the flathead valley chemical dependency clinic) and combines individual substance use disorder treatment with assistance transitioning back to independent living in the community and development of life-long recovery skills in a residential therapeutic community that encourages peer support, personal insight and growth. Eligible applicants must be a resident of montana, be at least 18 years of age, fall below 200% of the federal poverty level, be capable of obtaining employment while residing in the home and meet clinical criteria for asam 3.1 level of care.

    $138,538 spent
    9% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,459,419.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($668k)2018 Revenue 101 ($1.6M) Expenses 108 ($1.6M) Net assets 94 ($626k)2019 Revenue 109 ($1.7M) Expenses 110 ($1.7M) Net assets 104 ($696k)2020 Revenue 183 ($2.9M) Expenses 190 ($2.9M) Net assets 171 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 162 ($2.6M) Expenses 160 ($2.4M) Net assets 194 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 150 ($2.4M) Expenses 122 ($1.8M) Net assets 0 ($0)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (150)Expenses (122)Net assets (0)

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 $1.9M to $0 (−100%).

$750k
$735k
$818k
$1.8M
$1.9M
$0
201720182019202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 37% · 2018 40% · 2019 11% · 2020 16% · 2021 28% · 2022 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$70k
’17
−$42k
’18
$70k
’19
$28k
’20
$149k
’21
$528k
’22
10
months of
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.

Chief executive

Sydney Blair Started January 2022

Executive director

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

201720182019202020212022
Listed91098109
Joined·+1+1+1+4+3
No longer listed·02224
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES’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.

Where its funders are

GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.

DC

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES

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 Montana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES?
GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Who is the largest funder of GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES?
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 1 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