Gateways
Legal name: Gateways Organization Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133984085
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Monsey, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8453520393
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,319,071
- Expenses
- $13,102,284
- Assets
- $35,785,393
- Liabilities
- $24,075,913
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MORDECHAI SUCHARD (FOUNDER & PR): $275,328 total reported compensation
- SHLOIMY TAUBER (TREASURER): $80,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Gateways organization, inc (Gateways) is a not-for-profit voluntary organization whose primary purpose is to further Jewish education and raise Jewish awareness and history for all people of all backgrounds. Gateways hosts Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot and Chanukah holiday programs in hotels and resorts. These experiences provide the whole family with warm hospitality, fascinating presentations, inspirational services, gourmet food, top quality child-care and first class entertainment. Shavuos. Rabbi Glazerson has been involved in bringing many Jewish youngsters back to their Jewish roots. He has authored more than 30 books in Hebrew, most of which have been translated into Russian, French, Spanish, and English. For fifteen years, Rabbi Glazerson wrote a weekly column for Yom HaShishi in which he related words associated with current events to other Hebrew words having the...
What it reported doing in 2024
Gateways organization inc. Provides opportunities for jewish individuals to unlock the treasure of their heritage through dynamic educational and social programs. The organization hosts many programs year round to educate people regarding jewish history and culture. Additionally, larger events take place during the major holidays such as pesach, shavuous, rosh hashanah and chanuka.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some related-organization disclosures are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 56
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 14th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.73; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 94.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $275K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.