Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Oklahoma) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,303,377 to it, the largest being LYON FOUNDATION ($619,500). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- K S Adams Foundation Co-Trustlocal
- The Thomasson Foundationportfolio match
- Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Libertyportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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 13% · 2022 13% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN 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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $65k → $140k.
9 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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 OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 51% · 2019 80% · 2020 35% · 2021 44% · 2022 14% · 2023 17% — 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
53% of OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
84% of OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN 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. $369k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 39 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- K S Adams Foundation Co-TrustlocalOK · funds 7 organizations near you
- The Thomasson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Libertyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council for Christian Colleges and Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calvin Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterstone Supporting Organization Trust 1portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Columbia International Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lanier Theological Library Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massey Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nowiczewski Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.0M on record — $4.8M federal, $291k state.
- Department of Education$4.8M
- Scholarships-Students$291k
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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Wesleyan Church · exempt
- Bartlesville Wesleyan College Endowment · exempt
- Miltonvale Wesleyan College · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Oklahoma) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,303,377 to it, the largest being LYON FOUNDATION ($619,500). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,303,377 in grants to OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- LYON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $619,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 39funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing