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Oral Roberts University

To develop holy spirit-empowered leaders through whole person education to impact the world.

$62M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$383kCommunity Improvement$283kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kInternational$16kHuman Services$15kRecreation & Sports$15k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $159,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $62,081,042 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,921,542 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$49,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$323M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NETWORK211$65,000
TULSA METRO CHAMBER$49,500
LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION$25,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary: $50k → 10%THE A21 CAMPAIGN: $75k → 10%LA DREAM CENTER: $7k → 14%TULSA METRO CHAMBER: $50k → 15%Reggie Dabbs Motivational: $8k → 11%LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION: $25k → 13%Carl Richardson Ministries Inc: $10k → 13%THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD: $88k → 15%THE A21 CAMPAIGN: $10k → 10%TULSA METRO CHAMBER: $43k → 15%Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism: $10k → 13%NETWORK211: $65k → 15%THE A21 CAMPAIGN: $10k → 10%TULSA METRO CHAMBER: $36k → 15%NETWORK211: $50k → 15%Tulsa Metro Chamber: $35k → 15%Convoy of Hope: $22k → 15%Tulsa Metro Chamber: $35k → 15%CONVOY OF HOPE: $20k → 15%Tulsa Metro Chamber: $30k → 15%CONVOY OF HOPE: $10k → 15%Tulsa Metro Chamber: $26k → 15%CONVOY OF HOPE: $6k → 15%TULSA'S FUTURE INC: $20k → 15%TULSA METRO CHAMBER: $8k → 15%ORU Rugby Club: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Oral Roberts University’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Oral Roberts Universitylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$498k · 4 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$498k
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TR
    TULSA REGIONAL CHAMBER (FKA METROPOLITAN TULSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE)
    8× · 2017–2025 · $263k · revenue +96%
  • N2
    NETWORK 211 INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $115k · revenue 0%
  • T
    TheSend
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue -45%

Funded once

  • PP
    POTOMAC PARK CAMP GROUNDS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $88k · revenue +4%
  • GT
    Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR TULSAS FUTURE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +6%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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3
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
4
Lou Engle Ministries

Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.

Religion
5
For His Glory Ministries

For his glory's mission is to launch disciple-making movements that transform nations for christ.

Religion
6
For the Gospel Ministries

Support local churches, leaders, and christians from around the world through online content that strengthens and affirms their life in christ. committed to using every means possible to reach every age and life stage with the gospel…

Religion
7
Forum of Christian Leaders

The Forum of Christian Leaders (FOCL) exists to unite, equip, and resource global evangelical leaders toward the end of world evangelism and the renewal of the Biblical church.

Religion
8
Torch of Christ Ministries

Torch of Christ Ministries provides evangelism, education, and missional support through the dissemination of information with the primary intent of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to all.

Religion
9
Convention of Full Gospel Churches

The Convention of Full Gospel Churches exists to be a Holy Spirit-empowered, Christ-centered fellowship of churches, faithfully proclaiming the Word of God, ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit, equipping the saints for service, and…

Religion
10
Encounter Church

Church

Religion
11
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over seventy countries around the world.

International
12
Alliance for Transformational Ministry

Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Tulsas Future. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TULSA REGIONAL CHAMBER (FKA METROPOLITAN TULSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE): $262,550 · OtherTULSA REGIONAL CHAMBER (FKA METROPOLITAN TULSA CHAMBER OF C…POTOMAC PARK CAMP GROUNDS INC: $88,000 · OtherPOTOMAC PARK CAMP GROUNDS INCORU Rugby Club: $15,000 · Other+4 more: $35,444 · Other+4 moreNETWORK 211 INC: $115,000 · ReligionNETWORK 211 INCTheSend: $85,000 · ReligionTheSendLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION: $35,000 · ReligionLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANG…CONVOY OF HOPE: $57,923 · InternationalGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $50,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR TULSAS FUTURE: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$400,994Religion$235,000International$57,923Education$50,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTULSA REGIONAL CHAMBER (FKA METROPOLITAN TULSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE): $262,550 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNETWORK 211 INC: $115,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPOTOMAC PARK CAMP GROUNDS INC: $88,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTheSend: $85,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $57,923 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TULSAS FUTURE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oral Roberts University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oral Roberts University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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