· Public charity
The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation
To create and administer permanent charitable endowments to strengthen Methodist ministries in Oklahoma.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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