Gateway Atelier of Classical Art
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993858137
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3143995118
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,622
- Expenses
- $156,586
- Assets
- $25,602
- Liabilities
- $1,654
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BJ PARKER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BJ PARKER (PRESIDENT)
- INGRID OERTLI (TREASURER)
- CAROLYN KARASEK NEEDLES (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Gateway atelier of classical art (gaca) cultivates skilled representational, realist artists through rigorous training in drawing and painting based on direct observation and classical academic traditions. Through curricularly driven training, we empower them to build meaningful and enduring careers in art.
What it reported doing in 2025
Gaca provides a disciplined four-year curriculum in drawing, painting, and sculpture with clear benchmarks.- year 1: drawing mastery via master copies, cast drawing, and daily live model classes.- year 2: painting mastery from master copies, cast painting, and live model painting.- year 3: advanced painting.- year 4: professional development and mentoring.additionally, we offer a summer program for high school students, part-time core options, and bimonthly workshops with nationally recognized artists.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.5% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $153K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.