How much did THE BEN AND PEGGY KATES FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE BEN AND PEGGY KATES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

POSITIVE TOMORROWS$7,500
SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES$7,500
TEEM$5,000
GROUND ZERO$5,000
LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE$5,000
FIELDS FUTURES$5,000
PIVOT PROJECT OKC$2,500
YMCA$2,000
CASA$1,500
HOPE IS ALIVE$1,500
OKLAHOMA CITY VISUAL ARTS$1,000
PRAIRIE DANCE THEATRE$1,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 13%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$172k · 17 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$172k

$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+83%

Still filing today

47%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES
5× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +88%
OKC METRO ALLIANCE
4× · 2019–2023 · $17k · revenue +70%
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REMERGE
2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +303%

Funded once

SC
SPECIAL CARE INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +53%
OC
OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS
one grant, 2019 · $10k
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Oklahoma Child Care Resource & Referral

Oklahoma Child Care Resource & Referral does whatever it takes to make child care work for families, children, and providers. We give families peace of mind by equipping them with information on child care options, providing free referrals…

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Fostering Sweet Dreams Inc

To provide essential resources to oklahomas most vulnerable children by providing foster families with beds, bedding, carseats, & other furniture.

Human Services

Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc

The mission of the okcfjc is to provide protection, hope and healing to those impacted by domestic and family violence in the oklahoma city community. the organization provides a centrally located facility which co-locates and coordinates…

Crime & Legal

Speck Homes Inc

Speck homes, inc. provides group residential home rehabilitation services to teenage males under contracts with the oklahoma department of human services and the oklahoma office for juvenile affairs.

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Palmer Continuum of Care Inc

To provide quality, compassionate treatment for substance abuse and addiction which promotes sustained recovery for adolescents, women and their families.

Health

Oklahoma Parents Center Inc

The programs and services of OPC are based on the concept of educating parents to improve their child's quality of life. Our mission is to train, educate and support parents, families, professionals and consumers in building partnerships…

Health

Opportunity Center Inc

The mission of the Opportunity Center is to provide facilities and services that are sustainable, innovative, and compassionate for the life-long benefit of people with developmental disabilities in Kay County, Oklahoma.

Human Services

Reliant Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc

The mission is to provide those with developmental disabilities, a home-like residential setting that encourages independent living and skill development, thus enabling these individuals to achieve their greatest potential within the…

Health

Oklahoma Interviewing Services Inc

To provide statewide services for victims of and witnesses to child abuse and other crimes with a sensitive, compassionate response through skilled interviewing, referral to helping agencies, community outreach, and professional education.

Human Services

Family Hope House Inc

Family hope house empowers families through therapy, education and advocacy. as oklahomas sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.

Health

Northeast Okc Renaissance Inc

To be a catalyst for ethical, place-based community development from within.

Community Improvement

Food and Resource Center of South

Provide food and counseling to underpriviledged in 4 oklahoma counties.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Remerge of Oklahoma County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peppers Ranch Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

9/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$101,750Human Services$47,500Youth Development$37,000Health$17,000Crime & Legal$10,000Arts & Culture$8,000Housing & Shelter$2,500Education$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

El and Thelma Gaylord FoundationOK26.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund Of · The Kerr Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE BEN AND PEGGY KATES FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PRAIRIE DANCE THEATRE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 731059894 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PRAIRIE DANCE THEATRE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Ben and Peggy Kates Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BEN AND PEGGY KATES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ben and Peggy Kates Foundation?

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THE BEN AND PEGGY KATES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ben and Peggy Kates Foundation?

More from the funding graph