Missouri · Nonprofit
THE OASIS INSTITUTE
THE OASIS INSTITUTE (Missouri) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,073,457 to it, the largest being BJC HEALTH SYSTEM DBA BJC HEALTHCARE ($3,305,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $-1103479
What The Oasis Institute does
Mission
Oasis is a national educational organization designed to empower the lives of older adults, and includes a national network of oasis programs in more than 250 communities through seven education centers and a national network of over 800 partners in 47 states. Oasis offers challenging programs in the arts, humanities, health, technology literacy and volunteer service and creates opportunities for older adults to continue their personal growth and provide meaningful service to the community. Oasis was established in st. Louis in 1982.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Health - the institute's health education programs provide behavior-change workshops emphasizing increasing awareness, knowledge and skills for older adults to address their health needs and management. Oasis both creates health program content and holds licenses for nationally recognized evidence-based workshops. These programs are implemented by the supporting organizations as well as non-supporting organization centers and program sites. Program content includes topics on nutrition, exercise, chronic disease management, diabetes management, falls prevention, reducing social isolation and general health promotion.the health education programs prioritize evidence-based health programs such as the self-management resource center's chronic disease self-management and diabetes self-management programs, aging mastery program, and a matter of balance through mainehealth. The institute collaborates with community partners to provide effective health behavior change programs in community locations to improve long-term health outcomes. Programs focused on behavior change are multi-session workshops while many health education programs are one-time sessions. Oasis is analyzing the data…
$4,673,850 spent$132,284 earned by the program74% of program spendingVolunteer service - oasis cooperated with 78 school districts and partner sites to offer the oasis intergenerational tutoring program in the 2023-2024 school year. This research-based program matches trained volunteer tutors with primary grade children to build reading skills, confidence, self-esteem and a positive attitude toward learning. , the program operates in 20 major cities and involved more than 2,000 trained tutors. Volunteer participation is showing a steady increase in response to the growing need for academic and mentoring tutors. With the decline of the covid-19 pandemic, many school districts have returned to hosting oasis tutors in person.some have utilized alternative programming developed during the pandemic as a supplement to traditional tutoring as well. Tutor training is provided throughout the year to new school districts joining the program and for new tutors in existing programs. Oasis tutoring is currently serving in partnership with school districts in the st. Louis metropolitan area, missouri counties of st. Louis county, jefferson, franklin, st. Charles, audrain, callaway, linn, and livingston. The oasis tutoring network includes programming in…
$941,920 spent15% of program spendingEducation - the network centers design and implement local educational programs in the areas of the arts, humanities and a broad range of other interest areas. Topics range from creative writing and poetry, art history, performing and visual arts, international studies, american and world history and current events. The institute supports the network in developing educational programs that address technology literacy through the oasis connections technology training program and include topics on how to use ipads, iphones, internet, email, facebook, accessibility for handheld devices and fraud and scam protection. The institute works with the supporting organizations and other program locations throughout the country to implement these programs. Participation in oasis programs has grown by double digit percents each year since the pandemic began. Gross revenue grew by 50% between 2022 and 2023 and an additional 40% between 2023 and 2024. Oasis still offers most programs in a hybrid format and around 50% of particiapnts are still logging on, even if they live in the same city in which the program is hosted. Oasiseverywhere, the virtual education center that sources content from…
$477,877 spent$409,921 earned by the program8% of program spendingTechnology literacy - the institute has developed a broad library of technology literacy curricula that is offered under the oasis connections program category. These courses teach adults how to use technology in order to stay connected with friends and family to decrease social isolation, add digital tools to their lives, provide them with confidence to learn new technology skills on their own, and navigate the internet safely. Participants also gain or improve skills to engage in online activities such as managing benefits and healthcare/health monitoring. The curriculum is composed of more than 30 courses that are relevant to people in the oasis demographic. These include introduction to the computer, introduction to email, google photos, introduction to the internet, ipad, iphone, mobile accessibility, safety and privacy online, windows 10, windows 11, mac os and android devices. All courses are translated into spanish. The supporting organizations and other local program sites offer a wide range of technology courses to participants using the oasis technology curriculum. Enrollment in connections classes has exceeded 155,000 since the program began in 2001. Oasis connections…
$212,781 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,306,428.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.0M to $2.9M (−26%).
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 17% · 2018 16% · 2019 27% · 2020 41% · 2021 72% · 2022 72% · 2023 70% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of THE OASIS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 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
Richard H Miles
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $680k → $1.2M.
10 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 THE OASIS INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
THE OASIS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 THE OASIS INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 70% · 2019 68% · 2020 62% · 2021 47% · 2022 44% · 2023 38% — 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
44% of THE OASIS INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
80% of THE OASIS INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $808k 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
THE OASIS INSTITUTE has grown faster than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE OASIS INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $29.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$24.7M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$5.0M
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 THE OASIS INSTITUTE
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 3 related entities
- Albuquerque Oasis · exempt
- San Antonio Oasis · exempt
- Oasis Rochester · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE OASIS INSTITUTE: 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 THE OASIS INSTITUTE?
- THE OASIS INSTITUTE (Missouri) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,073,457 to it, the largest being BJC HEALTH SYSTEM DBA BJC HEALTHCARE ($3,305,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OASIS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $7,073,457 in grants to THE OASIS INSTITUTE, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OASIS INSTITUTE?
- BJC HEALTH SYSTEM DBA BJC HEALTHCARE is the largest funder on record, with $3,305,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OASIS INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47 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