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Oakland City University

Oakland City University (Indiana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,221,635 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,370,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$24M
Revenue FY2024
35
Funders on record
$4.2M
Grants received
$33M
Net assets
21/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

Oakland City University's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,063 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($27M) Expenses 100 ($29M) Net assets 100 ($43M)2018 Revenue 105 ($29M) Expenses 105 ($30M) Net assets 97 ($42M)2019 Revenue 123 ($33M) Expenses 115 ($33M) Net assets 98 ($42M)2020 Revenue 109 ($30M) Expenses 103 ($30M) Net assets 98 ($42M)2021 Revenue 114 ($31M) Expenses 109 ($31M) Net assets 102 ($44M)2022 Revenue 108 ($29M) Expenses 100 ($29M) Net assets 102 ($44M)2023 Revenue 84 ($23M) Expenses 96 ($27M) Net assets 89 ($38M)2024 Revenue 87 ($24M) Expenses 96 ($28M) Net assets 77 ($33M)
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Revenue (87)Expenses (96)Net assets (77)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 18% · 2019 17% · 2020 4% · 2021 8% · 2022 19% · 2023 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of Oakland City University’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
17
$1.6M
18
$417k
19
$269k
20
$134k
21
$672k
22
$4.4M
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$4.0M
24
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months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $214k → $421k.

7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $475k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oakland City University Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Oakland City University raised.

From the IRS filings of Oakland City University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Oakland City University leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

56%
largest funder
71%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 50% · 2019 60% · 2020 83% · 2021 45% · 2022 67% · 2023 59%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

45% of Oakland City University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

92% of Oakland City University's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

MI
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 35 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Oakland City University

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 26%Fundraising 1%

Governance

17
board members
94%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Blue Oak LLC · disregarded
  • Oakland City University Foundation · exempt
  • OCU Technologies Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Oakland City University: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Oakland City University?
Oakland City University (Indiana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,221,635 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,370,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Oakland City University have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $4,221,635 in grants to Oakland City University, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Oakland City University?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Oakland City University find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing