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GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS

EIN 26-0096240 E SAINT LOUIS, IL

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Revenue 2025
$3,624,380
Expenses 2025
$2,946,828

Program services were 82.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
4000
Street
725 N 15TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Provide affordable, accessible, quality pet resources and champion a thriving pet welfare community to the over 55,000 people who live in the East Side Pet District - East St. Louis, Cahokia Heights Washington Park and Fairmont City.

  • Intake, Shelter, Foster and Adoption Programs: GPG takes in stray and surrendered animals from residents in the East Side Pet District, including East St. Louis, Cahokia Heights, Washington Park and Fairmont City (zip codes 62201-62207). GPG partners with the local animal control facility, St. Clair County Animal Services, to intake animals as well as intakes directly from individuals. In 2025, GPG processed 1,836 intakes and achieved a 95% save rate. GPG adopted out 1,233 dogs and cats (691 dogs, 542 cats), a 7% increase over 2024, transferred 244 to partner rescue organizations, and reunited 169 pets with their families (22% increase). The average length of stay at adoption was 35 days. GPG completed 52 at-risk dog adoptions, a 160% increase over the prior year, and provided 308 field trips for shelter dogs. Over 762 active fosters contributed 63,899 foster hours with an average of 202 fosters per month. GPG utilized 483 active volunteers who gave 14,022 hours of service valued at $487,825 in in-kind labor.

    Expenses $1,825,766 · Revenue $136,096

  • Community Program: At GPG, we firmly believe that every family should be able to have the companionship of a pet even if they have financial restrictions. In 2025, GPG expanded its public clinic to 4 days per week and doubled veterinary staff hours. A total of 944 pets received medical treatment, 477 owned pets and community cats were spayed/neutered at no cost to the owner, and 478 cats were processed through the trap-neuter-return program. Additionally, 1,496 pets received free or low-cost life-saving vaccines, 550 received microchips, and 239 dogs received heartworm treatment. GPG's Pet Spa groomed 1,062 pets during the year. The organization conducted 1,437 community outreach visits, averaging 119 per month. GPG also launched a new Finder-to-Foster program and began providing Emotional Support Animal letter assistance. GPG has become a community partner providing services that were previously never provided in East St. Louis and provides them at a price that is affordable and attainable for pet owners in need.

    Expenses $486,685 · Revenue $598,135

  • Rescue Bank, now known as the Goods Program, is a partnership with the Greater Good where GPG purchases low-cost pet food and supplies and distributed 603 tons of pet food, litter, and supplies to other rescues in 2025. GPG's Pet Food Pantry served 354 families (a 42% increase over 2024), feeding 1,121 dogs and cats and distributing 107,419 pounds of food and litter. In total, 9,125 cats and dogs were fed through all pantries combined. GPG's retail store sold 153 tons of low-cost bulk pet food. GPG partners with the St. Louis Area Foodbank's Food on the Move program to expand community access to affordable pet food and supplies.

    Expenses $121,682 · Revenue $132,120

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Alisha Vianello

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $69,498
    From this org
    $65,949
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,549
    Hours/week
    50

  • Jennifer Dolce

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laura Placio

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jessica Spatola

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kate Lyford

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Cheryl Smith

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kristen Burger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,624,380
    Expenses
    $2,946,828
    Contributions
    $2,892,655
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,654,890
    Expenses
    $2,138,222
    Contributions
    $2,042,018
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,021,103
    Expenses
    $1,966,550
    Contributions
    $1,428,308
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,410,149
    Expenses
    $2,206,545
    Contributions
    $1,358,421
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,553,079
    Expenses
    $1,722,457
    Assets (EOY)
    $806,416

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,260,293
    Expenses
    $1,089,904
    Assets (EOY)
    $925,800

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $900,801
    Expenses
    $676,725
    Assets (EOY)
    $361,726

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $572,537
    Expenses
    $578,187
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,703

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $572,537
    Expenses
    $578,187
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,703

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $505,507
    Expenses
    $568,699
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,074

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $505,507
    Expenses
    $566,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,814

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $573,013
    Expenses
    $475,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $183,266

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $399,837
    Expenses
    $404,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,501

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $327,920
    Expenses
    $297,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,974

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.