Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY
OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY (Oklahoma) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,699,093 to it, the largest being THE MEINDERS FOUNDATION ($4,148,360). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $275M
What Oklahoma City University does
Mission
Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional programs. Programs include academic instruction and related services for undergraduate and graduate students, including financial aid in the form of scholarships and student aid. Average student enrollment for the 2024-2025 academic year was 2923.
$108,600,834 spentof which $35,069,187 as grants$86,302,408 earned by the program94% of program spendingAuxiliary services include expenditures and services that support educational activities, including the university bookstore, room and board, vending, and other various operations that support the mission of the university.
$7,128,824 spentof which $1,532,678 as grants$12,282,441 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $115,729,658.
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 2022 to 2023, from $348M to $398M (+14%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% 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
Jane Jayroe Gamble
Chairman and trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $635k → $1.2M.
13 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $8.1M from 16 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 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 CITY UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
41% 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 CITY UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 36% · 2019 31% · 2020 38% · 2021 24% · 2022 28% · 2023 55% — 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
38% of OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
90% of OKLAHOMA CITY 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. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 CITY UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.3M on record — $9.0M federal, $277k state.
- Department of Education$8.0M
- Department of Justice$800k
- Department of Homeland Security$225k
- Scholarships-Students$203k
- Acctg,Tax,Books,Payroll Svc$30k
- Exhibitions,Shows,Spec.Events$15k
- Approved Program Reimbursement$15k
- Registration - Agency Direct$4k
- Tuition-Hed.Colleges/Univer.$4k
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 CITY 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OKLAHOMA 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 OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY?
- OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY (Oklahoma) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,699,093 to it, the largest being THE MEINDERS FOUNDATION ($4,148,360). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $13,699,093 in grants to OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY?
- THE MEINDERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,148,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA CITY 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 96 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