Missouri · Nonprofit
THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER
THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $922,640 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($426,735). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $923k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What The Mission Gate Christian Center does
Mission
Provides in-prison services,life skills classes and residential housing and aftercare for parolees,probationers (and their children in women's facilities) and others in need of drug and alcohol recovery, enabling them to transition into society. Provides support and ministry to inmates and program graduates and to their families. Mission gate equips fathers to reunite with their children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mission gate provides services and reentry presentations in missouri prisons and jails and owns and operates aftercare programs in facilities owned in cuba and troy, missouri and in the st louis city area for federal,state,county and city former prisoners who are on probation or parole or newly released felons who are not on state supervision and for men and women with drug and alcohol addictions. Misson gate's aftercare homes serve over 350 men, women and children per year. All residents in the mission gate program receive employment placement assistance, transportation, initial food and clothing,instruction in spiritual, emotional and nutritional health, bible studies, employment soft skills, computer training, financial stewardship and other life skills such as parenting, interviewing skills and anger management. Residents without a high school diploma receive ged/hiset training and testing. Mission gate volunteers provide in-prison church services, bible studies and one-on-one counseling to an estimated 3,000 inmates per year. Mission gate works closely with institutional and field parole officers, case managers and chaplains to screen applicants for residency at mission gate.…
$1,355,257 spent$399,410 earned by the program96% of program spendingChristmas angel program providing 2,500 children of primarily prisoners'families and community needy with gifts, gospel witnessing and church referrals.upwards of 125 area churches and businesses are involved. Community,residents and their families participate by donating their time.
$22,563 spent2% of program spendingEquine and canine therapy for program clients utilizes dogs,cats,horses and small livestock at mission gate's fort good shepherd, stl city guest homes, hannah's ranch and promises of hope ranch for residents, children and graduates. The program has a healing effect on program participants' mental health. Participant feeds and cares for animals which promotes responsibility, trust and worth. Horseback riding brings a new way of recreation that excludes drugs and alcohol. Participants' families visit and partake in equine and canine interaction.
$27,199 spent2% of program spendingAll mission gate aftercare facilities are running at full capacity and are credentialed through mcrsp (missouri coalition of recovery support providers) which meets narr (national alliance for recovery residences) national standards. Mission gate serves 350 or more ex-offenders and children yearly. All clients in the program maintain a 95% or higher employment rate. Volunteers from 135 local churches help with maintenance and programming in the prisons and jails, aftercare and christmas angel mission. Formal mentoring and training programs are provided to volunteers and staff. Training from the department of mental health for alcohol and drug recovery, mrss (missouri recovery support specialist) and cps (certified peer specialist) is provided for staff and key volunteers. Mission gate continued to worked closely with centers for disease control, department of mental health, missouri department of corrections, missouri department of probation and parole, missouri division of family services, national alliance of recovery residences, local health providers, department of revenue, churches and local employers to provide a continuum of care for our residents onsite such as ged/hiset,…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,405,019.
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.
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 $2.8M to $3.1M (+10%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 20% · 2021 32% · 2022 40% · 2023 28% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $49k → $77k.
7 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER’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
THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 54% · 2019 74% · 2020 50% · 2021 88% · 2022 50% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $923k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER?
- THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $922,640 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($426,735). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $922,640 in grants to THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $426,735 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 7 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