Illinois · Nonprofit
Gateway Foundation Inc
Gateway Foundation Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,482,323 to it, the largest being JEROME NERENBERG 2000 CHARITABLE TRUST UAD ($514,076). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Gateway Foundation Inc does
Mission
Gateway Foundation, Inc. is a national, non-profit organization committed to reducing substance abuse and co-occurring mental health problems through effective and efficient treatment programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See Schedule OEstablished in 1968, Gateway Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation incorporated in the State of Illinois, celebrating its 55th year of service in 2023. Gateway Foundation is one of the largest and most trusted providers of substance use disorder treatment and treatment of co-occurring disorders through its two divisions: Community Services and Gateway Corrections.Our mission is the provision of substance use disorder and co-occurring disorders treatments which are accessible, effective and cost efficient. Our vision is to be a national leader, helping to create access through affordable high quality services. Gateway Foundation employs a variety of clinical models which are constantly evolving to incorporate best practice, science driven interventions including the use of psychiatry and addiction medicine. Gateway Foundation treatment sites span eight states, including Illinois, Texas, Missouri, New Jersey, Michigan, Florida, Georgia and Wyoming. In total, Gateway Foundation maintains over 80 site locations, all dedicated to providing a range of substance use disorder treatment services. Programs are provided in both community and correctional…
$108,527,059 spent$117,075,669 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $108,527,059.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $47M to $60M (+27%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Gateway Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Lawrence E Singer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $53k → $244k.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gateway Charitable Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Gateway Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Gateway Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 26 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
Gateway Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 70% · 2019 56% · 2020 46% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“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 Gateway Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
86% of Gateway Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $197k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Gateway Foundation Inc is better cushioned than half of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Gateway Foundation Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.6M on record — $1.9M federal, $14.7M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.3M
- Department of Justice$560k
- CARE/SUBSISTENCE - OTH VEND SVCS - GENERAL $13.9M
- CARE/SUBSISTENCE - MEDICAL - VENDOR - GENERAL $797k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $23
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Gateway Foundation Inc
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Gateway Foundation - Texas · exempt
- GW Foundation Inc · exempt
- Gateway Charitable Foundation Inc · exempt
- Beacon House · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Gateway Foundation Inc: 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 Gateway Foundation Inc?
- Gateway Foundation Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,482,323 to it, the largest being JEROME NERENBERG 2000 CHARITABLE TRUST UAD ($514,076). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gateway Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,482,323 in grants to Gateway Foundation Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gateway Foundation Inc?
- JEROME NERENBERG 2000 CHARITABLE TRUST UAD is the largest funder on record, with $514,076 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gateway Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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