Your financial support is a key ingredient to Gateway to Learning’s legacy of innovation and active inclusion!

From November 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024, The Coleman Foundation will match each dollar raised up to $30,000 to support Gateway to Learning and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

This generous match amplifies the impact of your donation in a unique way:

  • 1:1 match for individual donations

  • 2:1 match for corporate and business contributions

  • 3:1 match for private foundations

Donate here or click the button below!


Donor Advised Giving (DAF)

A donor-advised fund (DAF) provides donors with a centralized charitable giving vehicle. It allows philanthropically inclined individuals, families, and corporations to make an irrevocable charitable gift to a public charity that sponsors a DAF program and take an immediate tax deduction. equivalents, securities, and other assets.

If you are interested in charitable giving through your Donor Advised Fund and make contributions to Gateway to Learning, you can do so online through the portal provided.

You may also contribute through mail:

Gateway to Learning
4925 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL 60625

Gateway to Learning is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit, EIN 36-2806595.


We are so grateful for your support which ensures Gateway to Learning provides lifelong learning that promotes active inclusion at home, at work, and in our community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Learn more about the impact your support of our work has.

Artist Amuse.126 created a series of murals inside our site in late 2020, just before Gateway to Learning reopened during the COVID 19 pandemic. Inspired by the mission and the people at Gateway to Learning, Amuse 126 donated his time and talent.

The photo above is of “Baking Better Tomorrows”, a large mural which resides on the wall just outside the Bakery and Dorothy’s Sweet Shoppe.