· Public charity
The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation
To create and administer permanent charitable endowments to strengthen Methodist ministries in Oklahoma.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $994,632 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,392,116 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $397,484 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $361k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $606k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLAREMORE METHODIST CHURCH | $246,622 |
| OK UM CIRCLE OF CARE INC | $181,208 |
| SAINT PAUL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $73,061 |
| ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $52,845 |
| TRINITY WOODS | $51,949 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH UPPER ROOM | $40,000 |
| DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $34,862 |
| LOST CREEK UMC | $34,797 |
| ST STEPHENS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $26,423 |
| OKLAHOMA METHODIST CONFERENCE | $25,895 |
| FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $23,092 |
| KINGFISHER FIRST UMC | $19,768 |
| EPWORTH VILLA | $17,831 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY | $17,795 |
| HENNESSEY FIRST UMC | $16,997 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $180k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: WATER WELLS · CLASSROOMWATER WELL REPAIRSNEW HOSPITA
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- COCIRCLE OF CARE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $902k · revenue +6%
- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY5× · 2020–2024 · $363k · revenue +53%
- DWDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- QUQUAYLE UMCone grant, 2023 · $15k
- SSSHILOH SUMMER CAMP INCone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -25%
- WMWEATHERFORD METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $7k
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
As a christian liberal arts university, oklahoma baptist university transforms lives by equipping students to pursue academic excellence, integrate faith with all areas of knowledge, engage a diverse world, and live worthy of the high…
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
Ohio christian university (ocu) is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. (continued on schedule o)ocu offers degree programs designed to equip students to become…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
To develop and provide premier, wellness-based campuses and community outreach.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
University of the southwest is a christ-centered educational community dedicated to developing men and women for a lifetime of servant leadership by emphasizing faith, responsibility, and initiative.
Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.
Ouachita baptist university is a christ-centered learning community. embracing the liberal arts tradition, the university prepares individuals for ongoing intellectual and spiritual growth, lives of meaningful work, and reasoned engagement…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-America Christian University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Not Your Average Joe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 38% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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. 18 of the 39 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 CIRCLE OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds CBMC INC ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds SHILOH SUMMER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-America Christian University Inc ↗
- Who funds Not Your Average Joe ↗
- Who funds CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND MERCY MINISTRIES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM BIBLE CO ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA SAVED BY GRACE RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds BRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Servant Foundation · Wabash College · Wegener Foundation Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Jones Adora S Ministerial Trust · American Fidelity Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust
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 Oklahoma United Methodist 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.
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.