Gateway Rescue Mission 
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Summary
Gateway Rescue Mission serves the physical and spiritual needs of the homeless. We do this by providing tasty, nutritious meals for the body, a clean bed for the night, and a message of hope in Jesus Christ for the soul.
We also offer programs for those seeking biblical life transformation.
Contact information
Mailing address:
Gateway Rescue Mission
PO Box 3763
Jackson, MS 39207
Website: gatewaymission.org
Phone: 601-353-5864
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 640369382
CEO/President: Rex Baker
Chairman: Robert Saums
Board size: 11
Founder: Captain Len Martin
Ruling year: 1960
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 12/31
Member of ECFA: Yes
Member of ECFA since: 2012
Purpose
We can't save anyone. That's God's job. Our job is to be a vessel. That's what we are at Gateway Rescue Mission... God's vessel to pour out His mercy on those whom He will show mercy right here in Jackson, Mississippi.
Gateway Rescue Mission serves the physical and spiritual needs of the homeless. We do this by providing tasty, nutritious meals for the body, a clean bed for the night, and a message of hope in Jesus Christ for the soul. We also offer programs for those seeking biblical life transformation.
Mission statement
Gateway Rescue Mission exists to offer life changing hope through the Gospel of Jesus Christ to homeless men, women, and children through programs to deliver food, shelter, counseling and discipleship.
Statement of faith
We believe:
In one Triune God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit, eternal in being, identical in nature, equal in power and glory and having precisely the same attributes and perfections (2 Corinthians 13:14)
In the plenary, verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testaments. By this we understand that the Holy Spirit not only inspired the thoughts of the writers, but also formulated the very word structure into which the thoughts were cast with the result that the original documents were inerrant as to fact and infallible as to truth. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21)
That man was created in the image and likeness of God but through Adam's sin, became alienated from God, acquired a sin nature, and came under the judicial sentence of death (Genesis 1:25-27; Romans 3:22-23; 5:12-21; Ephesians 2:1-3,12)
That the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a propitiatory and substitutionary sacrifice, and that our redemption is made sure to us by His resurrection from the dead in the identical, though glorified, body in which He was crucified (John 1:1-2; Romans 3:24-25; 1 Peter 1:3-5)
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in Heaven exalted at the right hand of God, where as High Priest for His people, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor and Advocate (Romans 8:34; Hebrews 9:24; 1 John 2:1-2)
That the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Godhead, in the present age indwells all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, baptizes them into the Body of Christ and seals them unto the day of redemption, and we believe that every believer is commanded of God to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14; Ephesians 1:13-14, 5:18-20)
That salvation is the gift of God offered to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that this salvation is sure and eternal (John 3:16, 10:28-30; 1 John 5:11-13)
That the Church is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons in this age irrespective of their affiliation with Christian organizations (Ephesians 1:22-23; 5:25-27; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14)
We believe in the resurrection of the Just and the Unjust where the Just will spend eternity with their heavenly Father and the Unjust in eternal separation from God in a place reserved for them in the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:11-15)
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Transparency grade
C
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Rescue Missions/Homeless Shelters
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 1175 of 1420 | 123 of 159 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 1139 of 1420 | 131 of 159 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 1220 of 1420 | 137 of 159 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 623 of 1421 | 65 of 159 |
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Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 10% | 19% | 19% | 17% | 14% | 16% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 8% | 14% | 13% | 12% | 9% | 12% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 93% | 72% | 71% | 74% | 69% | 73% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 10% | 15% | 14% | 14% | 14% | 15% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 7% | 28% | 29% | 26% | 31% | 27% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 81% | 72% | 67% | 65% | 66% | 68% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 97% | 95% | 93% | 88% | 67% | 81% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 79% | 68% | 63% | 57% | 44% | 55% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 3% | 5% | 7% | 12% | 33% | 19% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 2% | 4% | 5% | 9% | 31% | 21% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 9% | 14% | 19% | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 0.56 | 0.63 | 0.63 | 0.63 | 0.62 | 0.80 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 3.07 | 1.64 | 1.71 | 1.80 | 1.79 | 1.73 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 2.05 | 1.04 | 1.08 | 1.13 | 1.10 | 1.38 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 10.24 | 17.17 | 22.12 | 19.26 | 18.34 | 21.54 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 5.18 | 10.87 | 10.61 | 10.07 | 10.28 | 8.30 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 10% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 9% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 145% | 152% | 154% | 155% | 158% | 114% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Cash | $3,409,415 | $3,117,186 | $2,794,739 | $2,581,423 | $1,972,214 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $86,060 | $82,367 | $100,982 | $75,225 | $53,669 |
| Short-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $3,495,475 | $3,199,553 | $2,895,721 | $2,656,648 | $2,025,883 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $2,223,781 | $2,249,491 | $2,312,672 | $2,098,292 | $1,465,002 |
| Other long-term assets | $6,808 | $6,808 | $6,808 | $9,857 | $6,808 |
| Total long-term assets | $2,230,589 | $2,256,299 | $2,319,480 | $2,108,149 | $1,471,810 |
| Total assets | $5,726,064 | $5,455,852 | $5,215,201 | $4,764,797 | $3,497,693 |
| Liabilities | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $203,613 | $144,660 | $150,331 | $144,872 | $94,058 |
| Other current liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current liabilities | $203,613 | $144,660 | $150,331 | $144,872 | $94,058 |
| Debt | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $217,600 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $217,600 |
| Total liabilities | $203,613 | $144,660 | $150,331 | $144,872 | $311,658 |
| Net assets | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Without donor restrictions | $5,326,416 | $5,311,192 | $5,064,870 | $4,619,925 | $3,186,035 |
| With donor restrictions | $196,035 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Net assets | $5,522,451 | $5,311,192 | $5,064,870 | $4,619,925 | $3,186,035 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Total contributions | $2,780,902 | $2,623,431 | $2,730,866 | $2,997,825 | $2,546,550 |
| Program service revenue | $945,851 | $991,994 | $969,808 | $804,929 | $904,574 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $117,543 | $87,084 | $12,709 | $300,075 | $12,175 |
| Other revenue | $448 | $462 | $722 | $262,840 | $3,693 |
| Total other revenue | $1,063,842 | $1,079,540 | $983,239 | $1,367,844 | $920,442 |
| Total revenue | $3,844,744 | $3,702,971 | $3,714,105 | $4,365,669 | $3,466,992 |
| Expenses | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Program services | $2,611,918 | $2,321,213 | $2,130,951 | $1,923,554 | $1,894,679 |
| Management and general | $491,366 | $646,313 | $690,506 | $596,379 | $490,965 |
| Fundraising | $530,201 | $489,061 | $451,520 | $411,846 | $408,612 |
| Total expenses | $3,633,485 | $3,456,587 | $3,272,977 | $2,931,779 | $2,794,256 |
| Change in net assets | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Surplus (deficit) | $211,259 | $246,384 | $441,128 | $1,433,890 | $672,736 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | $211,259 | $246,384 | $441,128 | $1,433,890 | $672,736 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| Rex Baker | Executive Di | $130,694 |
| Bentley Edwards | CFO | $121,857 |
Compensation data as of: 12/31/2024
Response from ministry
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History
Gateway Rescue Mission was founded by Captain Len Martin of the Jackson Fire Department in 1948. Captain Martin was compelled to help the homeless, and Gateway Rescue Mission remains faithful to the charge of helping the homeless. Offering hope through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Gateway Rescue Mission is committed to providing those in need with shelter, food, clothing, and rehabilitation.
Program accomplishments
We feed hungry people...3 square meals a day, 7 days a week.
We shelter the homeless...365 days a year.
We preach the Good News of Jesus Christ.
We help those struggling with addiction.
Needs
Gateway Rescue Mission is supported by financial contributions from individuals, corporations, foundations, churches and the sales of donated items to our thrift store located in Pearl, MS. We accept no government or United Way funds. We can't do it without you!