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GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC

GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being PREMIER BANK FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$26M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$100
Net assets
$4.4M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Gateways to Better Living Inc does

Mission

Gateways to better living, inc. Is dedicated to delivering the highest quality of services to individuals diagnosed with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provided housing and habilitation services using 13 icf group homes, 14 waiver homes and 3 workshops to people with developmental disabilities.

    $24,755,944 spent$25,447,265 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,755,944.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($18M) Expenses 100 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($601k)2018 Revenue 110 ($20M) Expenses 110 ($21M) Net assets 185 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 119 ($22M) Expenses 119 ($22M) Net assets 224 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 138 ($25M) Expenses 130 ($24M) Net assets 406 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 137 ($25M) Expenses 126 ($23M) Net assets 553 ($3.3M)2022 Revenue 130 ($24M) Expenses 124 ($23M) Net assets 627 ($3.8M)2023 Revenue 123 ($23M) Expenses 119 ($22M) Net assets 637 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 141 ($26M) Expenses 137 ($26M) Net assets 731 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (137)Net assets (731)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $7.2M to $9.8M (+36%).

$5.3M
$6.1M
$7.2M
$9.8M
$7.3M
$8.4M
$8.0M
$8.9M
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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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$350k
’17
−$452k
’18
−$489k
’19
$862k
’20
$1.6M
’21
$747k
’22
$281k
’23
$211k
’24
0.7
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

Karl Ware

Executive director

Board chair

Steven Snyder

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1515161516171717
Joined·+0+1+0+3+3+3+3
No longer listed·0012233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC’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

100% of GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH

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

Against its field

GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

OH

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Gateways Industries Inc · exempt
  • Gtbl Developement Corp · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC?
GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being PREMIER BANK FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100 in grants to GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC.
Who is the largest funder of GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC?
PREMIER BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GATEWAYS TO BETTER LIVING INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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