Gateway Stem Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
842684945
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Springfield, TN, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Science and Technology Museums

Reported finances

Revenue
$37,333
Expenses
$47,471
Assets
$31,593

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBERT DILLARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • JANET PALMORE (BOARD CHAIR)
  • RJ HAYE (BOARD SECRETARY)
  • ROBERT DILLARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

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

The mission of Gateway STEM Center is to inspire youth to seek careers in STEM by providing immersive space oriented experiences educating youth in the role STEM has played in the space program and the role that youth can play in the future. This is accomplished through courses developed by Gateway volunteers and delivered at Gateway Gateway developed programs delivered within the community outside of Gateways facility and programs developed by and delivered in partnership with NASA. Each program includes mapping of activity to future careers.

What it reported doing in 2025

In line with our core mission Gateway can confirm that a minimum of four students are currently enrolled in aerospace engineering courses of study - 3 freshmen and 1 sophomore. Based on current self-reporting by students we project three more aerospace engineering majors enrolling in college in the fall of 2027 and currently have one computer science major projected for 2028.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -27.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -25.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.