· Private foundation
The Ben and Peggy Kates Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POSITIVE TOMORROWS | $7,500 |
| SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| FIELDS FUTURES | $5,000 |
| LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| TEEM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PIVOT PROJECT OKC | $2,500 |
| YMCA | $2,000 |
| HOPE IS ALIVE | $1,500 |
| CASA | $1,500 |
| PRAIRIE DANCE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY VISUAL ARTS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +81% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PTPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +95%
SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +101%
OKC METRO ALLIANCE INC4× · 2019–2023 · $17k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SCSPECIAL CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +224%
- OCOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTSone grant, 2019 · $10k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.
Our Mission is for all Oklahoma families to have access to quality care and education for their children through community-based resource and referral services; with a vision of Oklahoma communities supporting the development and learning…
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.
The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
Youth & family services, inc. provides emergency shelter, counseling, delinquency prevention, independent living, and education programs to children with special needs and at-risk youth.
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…
Peaceful family solutions dba peaceful family oklahoma (pfo) offers free trauma-informed, age-appropriate, evidence-based, hope-centered programs through day camp and school-based models for children aged 4-18. a key component of the…
Sunny Oaks provides 24 hour residential services, supported living, nutritional, community and training services for individuals with I/DD (Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities) referred by state and county governments. Services…
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
The CARE Center exists to reduce trauma for child abuse victims and their families, coordinate a multidisciplinary approach to child abuse investigations, and provide free, effective child abuse prevention resources and education.
Provide the highest quality residential services to people with developmental disabilities. a major part of the mission is to provide opportunities to these individuals based upon their right to a normal daily routine. specifically, it is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Positive Tomorrows Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prairie Dance Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds OKC METRO ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds REMERGE INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds PIVOT INC ↗
- Who funds Prairie Dance Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STAND IN THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON HOME INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW FLEET INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EDMOND MOBILE MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds White Fields Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Wegener Foundation Inc · The Merrick Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Servant Foundation · Potts Family 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 organization 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.
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc — 52% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Care Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.