Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES
OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,750 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($20,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Oakland Service Ministries does
Mission
Oakland Service Ministries (osm) the organization serves the pittsburgh, pennsylvania area. Oakland Service Ministries is a tool to be used to start or continue christian ministries and projects that benefit the community. Oakland Service Ministries can provide help with fund-raising, fiscal sponsorship for tax-deductible donations and federal and state tax identification numbers and filings to a program.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Pittsburgh christian studies- faculty members at local universities counsel college students on how to arrange their schedules to include classes and activities that might deepen their christian faith, with small scholarships to help with book expenses.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 SERVICE MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES.
“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.
Where its funders are
58% of OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES: 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 SERVICE MINISTRIES?
- OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,750 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($20,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,750 in grants to OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES.
- Who is the largest funder of OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OAKLAND SERVICE MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 3 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing