Gateway Science Academy of St. Louis
Legal name: Gateway Science Academy of St Louis
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261425925
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- St. Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- (314) 282-0534
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,909,004
- Expenses
- $29,378,169
- Assets
- $17,911,906
- Liabilities
- $2,671,293
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIM BAGWELL (PRESIDENT)
- ORVILLE R GOERGER JR (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NUH CELIK (PRINCIPAL): $149,474 total reported compensation
- SUKRU KAYA (PRINCIPAL): $145,672 total reported compensation
- MUSTAFA ICEL (PRINCIPAL): $144,885 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Gateway Science Academy of St. Louis is a non-selective, tuition-free public charter school serving PreK-12 students with a STEM-focused, college-preparatory curriculum designed to change students’ lives. The State of Missouri has allocated a one-time amount of $27 million to distribute to public school districts to support lead reduction in drinking water as mandated by the Get the Lead Out of School Drinking Water Act (RSMo 160.077). This Act sets standards for lead concentrations in school drinking water and requires a drinking water outlet inventory, sampling, remediation, and monitoring at drinking water outlets. GSA's lead in the drinking water policy and testing reports as of December 2024 are below by campus: GSA Policy RE Get the Lead Out of School Drinking Water Act.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operate and maintain an educational institution serving 1,666 students enrolled in grades pre k - 12th grade.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 15 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $2.6M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.