Oklahoma · Nonprofit
IRON GATE INC
IRON GATE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,236,301 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($1,000,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 93
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Iron Gate Inc does
Mission
Iron gate's mission is simple. We feed the hungry and homeless of tulsa, every day. We feed people in three ways, through our community meal, grocery pantry, and kids pantry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community meals the daily soup kitchen serves a home-cooked meal following food is medicine guidelines every day of the year from 8:30 am to 10:30 am. In 2025, iron gate provided 288,662 meals.
$1,091,537 spent$66,393 earned by the program46% of program spendingGrocery pantry iron gate is a no barrier pantry accessible to anyone in need of food assistance. Our grocery pantry program provides several services: self- select pantry (3x per week) is an in-person pantry where guests select their own groceries. Agency pantry (2x per week) is a partnership with case managers to pick-up pre-packed groceries for their clients. Homeless outreach pantry (5x per week) is an on/off-site distribution of ready-to- eat items distributed by iron gate staff and outreach case managers. In 2025, iron gate provided 66,605 households with groceries.
$1,211,047 spent51% of program spendingKids pantry the kids pantry distributes a ziploc bag of kid-friendly, healthy snacks to every youth served by iron gate, either through the grocery pantry or community meal. In 2025, iron gate provided 42,246 kid packs.
$53,172 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,355,756.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $10M to $13M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 28% · 2023 6% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of IRON GATE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Kelly Jezek
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $140k → $971k.
11 of 93 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of IRON GATE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 93 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
IRON GATE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 88% · 2019 35% · 2020 28% · 2021 27% · 2022 20% · 2023 17% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
58% of IRON GATE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
80% of IRON GATE INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
IRON GATE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like IRON GATE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IRON GATE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IRON GATE INC?
- IRON GATE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,236,301 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($1,000,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IRON GATE INC have?
- IRS filings report 93 organizations giving $7,236,301 in grants to IRON GATE INC, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IRON GATE INC?
- JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IRON GATE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 93 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing