City Gates Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731729574
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Olympia, WA, United States
- Phone
- (360) 705-0291
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $312,394
- Expenses
- $225,079
- Assets
- $1,147,208
- Liabilities
- $2,856
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PHILLIP PRIETTO (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PHILLIP PRIETTO (PRESIDENT): $44,460 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through the gospel of Jesus Christ, we use donations as a tool to bring a sense of hope, build long lasting relationships, stabilize those struggling with poverty and hardships. Greg, and his wife Gail, actively serve City Gates Ministries in a variety of ways. They work together to pick up supermarket food and commodities, then deliver requested supplies to households with no transportation. Gail serves as treasurer for the ministry, while Greg serves on the Board of Directors. Greg and Gail have been married for 54 years. They are parents, grandparents, and have recently become great grandparents. He is a retired educator, having served as a teacher, Principal, and Superintendent in public and Christian Schools. He holds a Doctor of Education degree. Greg has been an active church member throughout his life, serving in many support roles. He currently attends Ever.
What it reported doing in 2025
010 street lights adult ministry van includes adult season appropriate clothing. Childrens ministry van includes season appropriate clothing, books, toys, diapers, wipes and children needs. Hygiene van provides hygiene products; upstreet kids truck has children related materials and essentials. All vans are stocked weekly to meet individual community needs in downtown olympia Washington
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, 28% for grants, and 8% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.1; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $225K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $44K · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.