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The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation

To create and administer permanent charitable endowments to strengthen Methodist ministries in Oklahoma.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Itemized grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$995k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$17,795
Largest grant, FY2024
$246,622
Organizations funded a year
11 to 22
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$480M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
ReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$995k27%
FY202322$726k50%
FY202211$680k18%
FY202112$499k50%
FY202012$455kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.3MHuman Services$1.1MReligion$800kRecreation & Sports$90kHousing & Shelter$46kEmployment$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kYouth Development$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
SD
CO
KY
KS
TN
OK
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Circle of Care Inc$901,72153%
Asbury Theological Seminary$362,56650%
Claremore Methodist Church$320,6702n/a
Saint Paul School of Theology$319,6225n/a
Dakota Wesleyan University$230,38640%
Trinity Woods Inc$187,32840%
Oklahoma Methodist Conference$175,1955n/a
Cbmc Inc$117,59650%
Asbury Church Inc$80,0002n/a
Kingfisher First Umc$71,2822n/a
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All grantees of The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Circle of Care Inc$901,72153%
Asbury Theological Seminary$362,56650%
Claremore Methodist Church$320,6702n/a
Saint Paul School of Theology$319,6225n/a
Dakota Wesleyan University$230,38640%
Trinity Woods Inc$187,32840%
Oklahoma Methodist Conference$175,1955n/a
Cbmc Inc$117,59650%
Asbury Church Inc$80,0002n/a
Kingfisher First Umc$71,2822n/a
Epworth Living Inc$54,03331%
Faith United Methodist Church$52,7602n/a
Wesley Foundation at Univ of Oklaho$49,1663n/a
Oklahoma City University$45,39240%
Lost Creek Umc$42,5842n/a
Upper Room$40,0001n/a
Hennessey United Methodist Church$33,4062n/a
Neighborhood Services Organization Inc$30,00030%
St Pauls Umc$30,0002n/a
St Stephens United Methodist Church$26,4231n/a
Connect United Methodist Church$26,1792n/a
Tahlequah First Umc$18,2562n/a
Piedmont United Methodist Church$16,6172n/a
United Methodist Higher Education Foundation$15,00010%
Quayle Umc$15,0001n/a
Christ Umc$12,2181n/a
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary$12,0861n/a
Emory University$11,55610%
Shiloh Summer Camp Inc$9,13911%
Weatherford Methodist Church$6,5001n/a
Mid-America Christian University Inc$6,00010%
Not Your Average Joe$5,90011%
Criminal Justice and Mercy Ministries of Oklahoma Inc$5,46011%
Iliff School of Theology$5,4141n/a
Bethlehem Bible Co$5,00010%
Oklahoma Saved by Grace Restoration$5,0001n/a
Brite Divinity School$5,00010%
New Covenant Church Inc$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCircle of Care Inc: $901,721 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetAsbury Theological Seminary: $362,566 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDakota Wesleyan University: $230,386 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTrinity Woods Inc: $187,328 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCbmc Inc: $117,596 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEpworth Living Inc: $54,033 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOklahoma City University: $45,392 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Services Organization Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Methodist Higher Education Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEmory University: $11,556 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShiloh Summer Camp Inc: $9,139 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMid-America Christian University Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNot Your Average Joe: $5,900 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCriminal Justice and Mercy Ministries of Oklahoma Inc: $5,460 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBethlehem Bible Co: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBrite Divinity School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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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.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK17.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation

How much does The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation give?
The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $994,632, out of $1,392,116 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Human Services (32%), Religion (23%).
Who are The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Circle of Care Inc ($902k), Asbury Theological Seminary ($363k), Claremore Methodist Church ($321k).
Does The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, Communities Foundation of Oklahoma, Servant Foundation.
Where is The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation based?
The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation is based in OK.

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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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