Illinois · Nonprofit
GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS
GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS (Illinois) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,194,507 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($662,700). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Gateway Pet Guardians does
Mission
Provide affordable, accessible, quality pet resources and champion a thriving pet welfare community to the over 55,000 people who live in the East Side Pet District - East St. Louis, Cahokia Heights Washington Park and Fairmont City.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Intake, Shelter, Foster and Adoption Programs: GPG takes in stray and surrendered animals from residents in the East Side Pet District, including East St. Louis, Cahokia Heights, Washington Park and Fairmont City (zip codes 62201-62207). GPG partners with the local animal control facility, St. Clair County Animal Services, to intake animals as well as intakes directly from individuals. In 2025, GPG processed 1,836 intakes and achieved a 95% save rate. GPG adopted out 1,233 dogs and cats (691 dogs, 542 cats), a 7% increase over 2024, transferred 244 to partner rescue organizations, and reunited 169 pets with their families (22% increase). The average length of stay at adoption was 35 days. GPG completed 52 at-risk dog adoptions, a 160% increase over the prior year, and provided 308 field trips for shelter dogs. Over 762 active fosters contributed 63,899 foster hours with an average of 202 fosters per month. GPG utilized 483 active volunteers who gave 14,022 hours of service valued at $487,825 in in-kind labor.
$1,825,766 spent$136,096 earned by the program75% of program spendingCommunity Program: At GPG, we firmly believe that every family should be able to have the companionship of a pet even if they have financial restrictions. In 2025, GPG expanded its public clinic to 4 days per week and doubled veterinary staff hours. A total of 944 pets received medical treatment, 477 owned pets and community cats were spayed/neutered at no cost to the owner, and 478 cats were processed through the trap-neuter-return program. Additionally, 1,496 pets received free or low-cost life-saving vaccines, 550 received microchips, and 239 dogs received heartworm treatment. GPG's Pet Spa groomed 1,062 pets during the year. The organization conducted 1,437 community outreach visits, averaging 119 per month. GPG also launched a new Finder-to-Foster program and began providing Emotional Support Animal letter assistance. GPG has become a community partner providing services that were previously never provided in East St. Louis and provides them at a price that is affordable and attainable for pet owners in need.
$486,685 spent$598,135 earned by the program20% of program spendingRescue Bank, now known as the Goods Program, is a partnership with the Greater Good where GPG purchases low-cost pet food and supplies and distributed 603 tons of pet food, litter, and supplies to other rescues in 2025. GPG's Pet Food Pantry served 354 families (a 42% increase over 2024), feeding 1,121 dogs and cats and distributing 107,419 pounds of food and litter. In total, 9,125 cats and dogs were fed through all pantries combined. GPG's retail store sold 153 tons of low-cost bulk pet food. GPG partners with the St. Louis Area Foodbank's Food on the Move program to expand community access to affordable pet food and supplies.
$121,682 spent$132,120 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,434,133.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $2.2M (+42%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $70k → $477k.
17 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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 PET GUARDIANS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
92% 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 PET GUARDIANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 71% · 2019 40% · 2020 28% · 2021 35% · 2022 28% · 2023 21% — 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
36% of GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 PET GUARDIANS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS
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
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 GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS: 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 PET GUARDIANS?
- GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS (Illinois) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,194,507 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($662,700). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $3,194,507 in grants to GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $662,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS 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 59 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing