Oklahoma · Nonprofit
Oklahoma Christian University
Oklahoma Christian University (Oklahoma) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,615,532 to it, the largest being THE MEINDERS FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $71M
What Oklahoma Christian University does
Mission
Oklahoma Christian University educates, mentors, and inspires learners to fulfill their god-given potential. Oklahoma Christian University has a campus culture known as the kingdom way. There are three pillars supporing the kingdom way. Oc works for their good and their welfare. Oc promotes and expects a culture of humility, kindness, respect, joy and trust. Oc depends on god to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Functional expenses of instruction, student services, and academic support. Best described as costs directly related to educational or training programs: activities such as teaching, curriculum development and related support services. Also includes costs related to activities that support students' emotional, physical, spiritual, intellectual, cultural, and social well-being.
$53,497,096 spentof which $23,199,537 as grants$52,248,817 earned by the program79% of program spendingAuxiliary activities such as food service, housing, study-abroad housing, and campus bookstore. Costs relate to non-instructional, self-supporting services that enrich the educational experience.
$14,433,875 spentof which $771,903 as grants$11,621,202 earned by the program21% of program spendingStudent loan programs such as perkins loans and nursing student loans.
$144,852 spent$319,677 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,075,823.
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 2018 to 2019, from $118M to $126M (+7%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 17% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of Oklahoma Christian University’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Mark Brewer
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $423k → $2.7M.
22 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Oklahoma Christian University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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
Oklahoma Christian University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
55% 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 Oklahoma Christian University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 61% · 2019 51% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 26% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of Oklahoma Christian University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
69% of Oklahoma Christian University's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
Oklahoma Christian University's funding base is broadening — from 21 funders to 38 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Oklahoma Christian University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.7M on record — $8.3M federal, $365k state.
- Department of Education$8.2M
- Department of Defense$125k
- Scholarships-Students$359k
- Assistance Pymts to Agencies$4k
- Educational Services$2k
- Approved Program Reimbursement$730
- Rent of Other Building Space$110
- Registration - Agency Direct$100
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 Oklahoma Christian 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.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Eagle Works · disregarded
- Christian Chronicle Inc · exempt
- Ok Christian College Investment Corp · corp_trust
- Oc Gmbh · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Oklahoma Christian 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 Oklahoma Christian University?
- Oklahoma Christian University (Oklahoma) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,615,532 to it, the largest being THE MEINDERS FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oklahoma Christian University have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $12,615,532 in grants to Oklahoma Christian University, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oklahoma Christian University?
- THE MEINDERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oklahoma Christian University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 88 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing