Oklahoma · Nonprofit
The University of Tulsa
The University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) receives grants from 213 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,164,614 to it, the largest being J A Leta M Chapman TR 486002AC2 ($95,328,987). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $339M
- Funders on record
- 213
- Grants received
- $242M
- Net assets
- $1.5B
What The University of Tulsa does
Mission
The University of Tulsa is a student-centered research university that cultivates interconnected learning experiences to explore complex ideas and create new knowledge in a spirit of free inquiry. Guided by our commitment to diversity, equity, and service, we prepare individuals to make meaningful contributions to our campus, our community, and our world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction - the university served approximately 2,487 undergraduate and 1,074 graduate students in fiscal year ending june 30, 2024. This category includes direct instruction costs as well as housing, dining, student services, athletics, auxiliary activities, and student aid. It also includes the portion of plant maintenance related to education activities.
$295,045,872 spentof which $106,530,639 as grants$193,192,163 earned by the program85% of program spendingResearch - the institution receives grants from federal, state, and local agencies as well as from the private sector. The major portion of the institution's research is in the fields of petroleum and chemical engineering. It also includes a portion of plant and maintenance related to research activities.
$33,476,307 spentof which $412,375 as grants$5,705,632 earned by the program10% of program spendingPublic service - this item includes 2 public radio stations, a speech and hearing clinic, and several academic journals. It also includes a portion of plant maintenance related to public service activities.
$17,748,792 spentof which $67,301 as grants$22,975,055 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $346,270,971.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5B to $1.7B (+18%).
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 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of The University of Tulsa’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. 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
Marcia Mott Macleod
Trustee/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 69 funders to 89 funders, grant income rose $9.6M → $41M.
25 of 213 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $62M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest American Athletic Conference); $32M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest George Kaiser Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money The University of Tulsa raised.
From the IRS filings of The University of Tulsa’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 213 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 University of Tulsa leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 University of Tulsa.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 45% · 2019 47% · 2020 43% · 2021 42% · 2022 41% · 2023 42% — 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
47% of The University of Tulsa's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
96% of The University of Tulsa's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.0M 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
The University of Tulsa's funding base is broadening — from 69 funders to 89 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding The University of Tulsa receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85.9M on record — $84.0M federal, $1.9M state.
- National Science Foundation$26.1M
- Department of Defense$18.0M
- Department of Education$13.8M
- Department of Energy$10.4M
- Department of Commerce$5.5M
- Department of Homeland Security$5.0M
- Scholarships-Students$799k
- Educational Services$457k
- Admin Mgmt-Gen.Mgmt Consulting$252k
- Other Scientific-Tech.Cons.Svc$229k
- R&D-Physical, Eng., Life Sci$87k
- OCAST Program Award Payments$31k
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 University of Tulsa
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 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Blackrock Properties LLC · disregarded
- Heart of Tulsa Event Services LLC · disregarded
- The Gilcrease Management Trust · exempt
- Fab Lab Tulsa Inc · exempt
- Flt Holding Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The University of Tulsa: 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 University of Tulsa?
- The University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) receives grants from 213 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,164,614 to it, the largest being J A Leta M Chapman TR 486002AC2 ($95,328,987). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The University of Tulsa have?
- IRS filings report 213 organizations giving $242,164,614 in grants to The University of Tulsa, 139 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The University of Tulsa?
- J A Leta M Chapman TR 486002AC2 is the largest funder on record, with $95,328,987 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The University of Tulsa 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 213 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