· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| POSITIVE TOMORROWS | $7,500 |
| TEEM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FIELDS FUTURES | $5,000 |
| LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +81% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 RAINBOW FLEET INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EDMOND MOBILE MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds White Fields Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ben and Peggy Kates Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ben and Peggy Kates Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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