Gateway Healthcare
Legal name: Obed Apartments Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050422771
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Providence, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4016676502
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Mental Health Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,071
- Expenses
- $162,056
- Assets
- $791,496
- Liabilities
- $1,196,335
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Henry Sachs III (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Henry Sachs III (President): $612,588 total reported compensation
- Scott DiChristofero (Former Officer): $188,030 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help people who have qualifying mental health conditions reach a level of recovery that enables them to lead productive, independent lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide low-income housing and access to support services to people with physical and psychological challenges. Obed has a total of 10 units located in a condominium complex at 154 Obed Avenue in North Providence, Rhode Island. The occupancy rate was 80% during the fiscal year covered in this return. There were 706 vacant days among the 10 units during the fiscal year covered in this return. The waiting list as of 6/30/25 consisted of 39 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 68% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for affiliated organizations.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.6%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 24th 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: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -36.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.88; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.51; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 96.6% of revenue deployed · 70.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $115K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $613K · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 40 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.