Gateway to Early Learning Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332852817
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Columbia Falls, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062507438
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,504
- Expenses
- $124,284
- Assets
- $14,645
- Liabilities
- $16,146
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- JAIMIE SMITH (CHAIR AND TREASURER)
- BLAYNE FUREY (SECRETARY)
- GLORIA GILBERT (VICE CHAIR)
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
Our mission is to provide high-quality early childhood education that fosters school readiness, social-emotional growth, and foundational academic skills. We are committed to ensuring all children--regardless of family income--have access to nurturing, curriculum-based learning, and we support families through educational resources, subsidy assistance, and meaningful engagement opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides early childhood education for infants through pre-kindergarten, offering curriculum-based and play-based learning that promotes school readiness and social-emotional development. We also assist families in accessing state child-care subsidies and provide parent-engagement activities to support children's overall development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.1; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -65% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.7% of revenue deployed · 85.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.