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Oakland University
Oakland University (Michigan) receives grants from 160 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,540,222 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST ($21,078,448). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
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- Funders on record
- 160
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
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Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Oakland University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 160 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
Oakland University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
52% of Oakland University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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
Oakland University draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 29 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Government funding Oakland University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $163.6M on record — $163.6M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Education$81.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$39.4M
- National Science Foundation$30.5M
- Department of Commerce$6.3M
- Department of Defense$3.3M
- Department of Energy$791k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Oakland University
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.
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Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Oakland 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 University?
- Oakland University (Michigan) receives grants from 160 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,540,222 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST ($21,078,448). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oakland University have?
- IRS filings report 160 organizations giving $20,540,222 in grants to Oakland University, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oakland University?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST is the largest funder on record, with $21,078,448 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oakland University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024, and the filings of 160 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing