Totals
- Total revenue
- $2,116,748
- Total expenses
- $2,135,006
- Contributions and grants received
- $954,319
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $1,161,581
- Investment income
- $332
- Other revenue
- $516
- Total assets, end of year
- $667,801
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $374,570
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $293,231
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,745,475
- Management and general expenses
- $302,271
- Fundraising expenses
- $87,260
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,428,241
Program services were 81.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$0
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1c · Fundraising events
$0
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1d · Related organizations
$536,052
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$222,241
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$196,026
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$0
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2a · Program service revenue: WHMB
total $166,045 · related or exempt $166,045 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue: Sierra Experience
total $845,183 · related or exempt $845,183 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2c · Program service revenue: Wellness
total $150,353 · related or exempt $150,353 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $332 · related or exempt $332 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6a · Gross rents
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6b · Less rental expenses
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $0 · other assets $0
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $0 · other assets $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$0
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11a · Other revenue: Event
total $516 · related or exempt $516 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11d · All other revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$516
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0 · program services $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,121,610 · program services $919,720 · management and general $145,810 · fundraising $56,080
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $77,815 · program services $66,142 · management and general $7,782 · fundraising $3,891
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $94,575 · program services $80,389 · management and general $9,458 · fundraising $4,728
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11a · Fees: management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0 · fundraising $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $44,756 · program services $44,756 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $34,061 · program services $30,655 · management and general $3,406 · fundraising $0
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14 · Information technology
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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15 · Royalties
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $54,155 · program services $54,155 · fundraising $0
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17 · Travel
total $30,343 · program services $30,343 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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20 · Interest
total $3,128 · program services $0 · management and general $3,128
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $35,346 · program services $14,140 · management and general $10,603 · fundraising $10,603
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23 · Insurance
total $41,323 · program services $26,860 · management and general $14,463 · fundraising $0
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24e · All other expenses
total $597,894 · program services $478,315 · management and general $107,621 · fundraising $11,958
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $175,679 · end of year $210,746
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $29,889 · end of year $60,500
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $151,538 · end of year $165,607
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$278,234
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$45,562
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $219,304 · end of year $230,948
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $4,741 · end of year $19,035
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $260,144 · end of year $355,535
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $311,525 · end of year $293,232
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
Founded in 2006 by Peter Mayfield, a successful leader, pioneer, and innovator in mountain sports programs, Gateway Mountain Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation operating under a Special Use Permit from Tahoe National Forest. Gateway Mountain Center brings together the transformative power of human connection and nature immersion to help young people learn, heal, and thrive. Our innovative, science-informed method called 4Roots for Growing a Human supports the emotional, mental, physical, and social well-being of all young people regardless of where they come from, their life experiences, and their physical abilities. Our work happens in all the places where young people need this support. That includes working with schools, collaborating with community groups and youth organizations, offering services at our community wellness center, and delivering our clinically supervised, nature-based, therapeutic mentoring program.
Activities or mission (Part I)
All the significant activities focus on making a positive impact on youth via nature-based programs. The 3 most significant activities include: 1. Sierra Experience, which includes both camps and school program services; 2. WHMB - Whole Hearts, Minds and Bodies focuses on nature-based therapeutic mentoring, which strives to develop awareness and confidence in young adults; 3. Wellness is a feeder program to the WHMB program, working with schools to connect with at-risk young adults dealing with a variety of life-related challenges.
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Sierra Experience - Sierra Experience includes both camps and schools program services. Schools is more academic based. We foster a sense of wonder, connection, and inquiry. We connect youth with themselves, nature, and community with spirited and transformative adventures. Serving 4th - 12th grade students, our holistic curriculum is shaped by common core, next generation science standards, STEM principles, and best practices in current wellness, ecology, and mountain sports. Using the science of awe and systems thinking, students connect the dots between the personal and the universal.
Expenses $845,379
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WHMB - Whole Hearts, Minds, and Bodies is a program for young people who want to approach their lives and well-being in a full and integrated way. We utilize an approach we call Nature Based therapeutic Mentoring, which combines modern therapeutic approaches with traditional mentoring to create relationships that are deliberate and nurturing. With nature as our backdrop we guide youth through multi hour activity based sessions where they learn skills and develop the capacities they need to face their challenges and meet life with confidence
Expenses $464,452
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Wellness - Wellness is a feeder program to whole hearts - it's our first point of contact with building relationships with all the youth we serve. We go into schools, and we do cool things. We work closely with the principles, teachers, counselors, and psychologists. We may do up to 5 sessions like a WHMB mentor situation, but call it wellness. It turns into whole hearts when it becomes long term. We are the crisis go-to's: immigration problems, medical support, interfacing with a parent, they call us.
Expenses $118,410
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Kurt Schlimann
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Marco Mora
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kristi Darzynkiewicz
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mark Service
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Joaquin Jordan
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Liana Ris
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Robert Hambrecht
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tanja Powers
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 15 May 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202511359349313311
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