Oklahoma · Nonprofit
ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY
ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY (Oklahoma) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,472,877 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ($83,830,915). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $198M
- Funders on record
- 107
- Grants received
- $146M
- Net assets
- $289M
What Oral Roberts University does
Mission
To develop holy spirit-empowered leaders through whole person education to impact the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and academic support - instruct and provide academic support to over 5,900 students.student services, scholarships, and grants - ease the administrative and financial burden of students' education.
$114,370,516 spentof which $56,463,203 as grants$114,755,083 earned by the program74% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises - costs incurred to provide room and board and other auxiliary services to the student resident population.
$25,753,057 spent$26,712,195 earned by the program17% of program spendingPublic service - costs incurred to facilitate weekly community outreach, annual domestic and international mission trips, and other public service opportunities.
$10,439,283 spentof which $5,617,839 as grants$964 earned by the program7% of program spendingGolden eagle broadcasting america - costs to broadcast television programming that seeks to equip, empower, and educate through spirit-empowered edu-tainment that will help viewers to live well - spirit, mind, and body.research - costs incurred to conduct biomedical, academic, and other related research.
$3,780,708 spent$3,462,621 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $154,343,564.
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 2021 to 2022, from $217M to $267M (+23%).
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 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Joe Dobbins
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $10.0M → $30M.
28 of 107 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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: $1.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oral Roberts University Alumni Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 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
ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 27% · 2019 52% · 2020 80% · 2021 84% · 2022 78% · 2023 80% — 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
40% of ORAL ROBERTS 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
84% of ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $23M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.2M on record — $19.7M federal, $549k state.
- Department of Education$18.7M
- National Science Foundation$947k
- Department of Defense$21k
- OK$483k
- FL$66k
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 ORAL ROBERTS 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Oru Golden Eagle Club · exempt
- Oral Roberts University Eacademy · exempt
- Oral Roberts University Educational Fellowship · exempt
- University Broadcasting Inc · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (2) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY?
- ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY (Oklahoma) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,472,877 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ($83,830,915). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $146,472,877 in grants to ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY?
- INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $83,830,915 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORAL ROBERTS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 107 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