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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 39-4240470

Bates Family Foundation

A private foundation in Kingsburg, CA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 10 grants and $17,500 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

1 return on file

Tax year 2025 is the only return we have read for this foundation so far.

  • Tax year 2025

    $17,500

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $33,500

Grants paid in 2025

10 grants, largest first

As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.

  1. Kingsburg Community ChurchKingsburg, CA

    plant the good new of Jesus Christ

    $5,000
  2. Individual

    food,clothing spiritual guidance to those in need

    $3,000
  3. Samaritans PurseBoone, NC

    relief for people experiencing disasters

    $2,500
  4. Individual

    provide essential services to [individual] community in need

    $2,500
  5. Tim Tebow FoundationPonte Vedra Beach, FL

    physical and spiritual care of abandoned children

    $1,000
  6. Individual

    provide dignity and quality of life to people in Kenya affected by life-threatening illnesses through holistic care and education.

    $1,000
  7. Foodlink of Tulare CountyExeter, CA

    provide food resources to residents of Tulare County

    $1,000
  8. St Judes HospitalMemphis, TN

    to advance cures and means of prevention for pediatric catastrophic diseasesthrough research and treatment.

    $500
  9. Marjaree Mason CenterFresno, CA

    emergency and longer-term safe housing along with a wide variety of support services for victims of domestic violence in Fresno County.

    $500
  10. Central Sierra Historical SocietyShaver Lake, CA

    preserve the cultural and natural history of theSierraNevada through education and curation ofhistoricalartifacts and stories.

    $500

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Religion2 grants $7,50094% of the total
  2. Human services1 grant $5006% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. California4 grants $7,000
  2. North Carolina1 grant $2,500
  3. Florida1 grant $1,000
  4. Tennessee1 grant $500

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • James C Bates JrPresident Hours 1Pay $0
  • Dorothy M BatesSecretary CFO Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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