Texas · Nonprofit
OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,028,014 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,050,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $58M
What Oblate School of Theology does
Mission
Inspired by the charism of the missionary oblates of mary immaculate, Oblate School of Theology educates, forms, and renews men and women to "preach the gospel to the most abandoned."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Effective january 1, 2024, oblate renewal center operations and fixed assets were transferred to the u.s. Province, a related party. The school recorded a loss of $137,583 related to this transfer, which is included in other income (loss) on the consolidated statement of activities and changes in net assets for the year ended june 30, 2024. The school still continues to host and operate events in smaller spaces.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Oblate School of Theology (ost) is an accredited catholic school of theology offering graduate level programs in theology, pastoral ministry and divinity, a doctoral program in ministry, and a phd program in spirituality. Ost prepares men for priesthood from many dioceses and religious communities across the united states and abroad. Ost also prepares men and women,religious as well as laity, from catholic and other christian traditions for a variety of ministries. During fiscal year 2025 ost provided educational services for approximately 209 students in degree programs, 173 students in certificate programs, and approximately 1,653 participants at 40 continuing education events. Ost issued degrees to 35 students in masters programs, 1 doctoral program students, 2 phd students, and 71 certificate students in various programs.
$5,507,023 spentof which $466,905 as grants$2,891,222 earned by the program87% of program spendingThe ministry to ministers (mtm) program offers active ministers a four month program of renewal addressing the needs of body, mind and spirit. The mtm program is offered twice a year. Participants in this program are housed in a facility that accommodates up to 25 people at a time. During fiscal year 2025 the program hosted 30 participants and provided them with room and board, mini-courses and workshops focused on theological updating and renewal, as well as topics on integrative spirituality.
$786,951 spentof which $330,000 as grants$358,023 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,293,974.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $49M to $59M (+21%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Very Rev Ray Cook Omi
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $455k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY’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
OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
27% 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 OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 43% · 2019 35% · 2020 37% · 2021 28% · 2022 75% · 2023 63% — 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
41% of OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $460k on record.
- Department of Education$460k
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 OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- US Province of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Inc · exempt
- Oblate Service Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY?
- OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,028,014 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,050,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,028,014 in grants to OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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