Family Gateway Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752105579
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2148234500
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,409,855
- Expenses
- $7,294,694
- Assets
- $12,386,127
- Liabilities
- $347,488
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELLEN MAGNIS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ELLEN MAGNIS (PRESIDENT & CEO): $273,324 total reported compensation
- CINDY ALLEY (CFO): $145,678 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of family gateway is to provide stability and life-changing supportive services to children and families affected by homelessness.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family gateway provides stability and supportive services to families with children experiencing homelessness. Services include a dedicated team to help families access crisis services, comprehensive assessments to determine the most appropriate intervention for a family's needs, triage into family gateways emergency shelter as well as partner shelters in the metroplex, 24/7 emergency shelter operations, intensive case management services focused on a housing solution and removing barriers to success, and supportive housing to reduce the chances of families returning to homelessness. While in care, families are offered a variety of services according to their unique needs, including referrals to partners and onsite support for financial literacy, pregnancy prevention, mental health counseling, drug/alcohol abuse counseling, medical/dental care, etc. Services are designed to reduce or eliminate the time a family spends in emergency shelter if they can be managed with a less expensive intervention.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $31.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 44th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.5%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $273K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.