Oklahoma · Nonprofit
UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC
UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,469,206 to it, the largest being LOVE MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($450,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Upward Transitions Inc does
Mission
The agency fulfilled this mission by providing a hand up to 4,139 such persons in the okc metro area. Those helped included families and individuals receiving case management, transportation assistance, rent and utility assistance, emergency travel assistance due to domestic violence and human trafficking, and replacement/retrieval of legal documents like birth certificates and driver licenses needed for employment, housing, and public assistance. These forms of help made it possible for referred clients who are homeless or on the verge of becoming so to complete the programs of referral agencies and obtain and/or preserve their place called home. Our goal is to not only place them on a path to self-sufficiency but to place them on a path to sustainable self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community outreach program - this program provided 4,139 persons with transportation assistance, government approved identification cards/replacement drivers licenses, rental assistance and utility assistance.transportation assistance was provided to those who do and do not own their transportation. For those who do own their own transportation and can show proof of a driver's license and auto insurance, we will issue gas cards for social service and medical appointments and/or those who have recently secured employment and require assistance to purchase fuel until they receive their first paycheck. Gas cards were issued to 33 clients during fy25. For those without their own transportation, we issue bus passes. Bus passes were issued to 621 clients for job interviews, social service and medical appointments, and transportation to and from work. Transportation assistance is also provided to persons who are stranded and those who are victims of domestic violence or human trafficking. Those with their own transportation are issued gas vouchers and those without are provided with bus tickets to their destination; thereby reconnecting them with their support systems.many of the clients…
$899,766 spentof which $368,879 as grants$6,919 earned by the program92% of program spendingTravelers aid - this program operates information booths on the lower and upper levels of okc will rogers international airport to offer travelers friendly, prompt and accurate assistance. Ut recruits and trains volunteers to provide visitors with general airport and area information; help visitors obtain social service assistance including transportation or shelter for stranded travelers and victims of domestic violence and human trafficking; and aid visitors requiring special assistance including hearing and visual impairment assistance and wheelchair assistance. Typically, 30 volunteers staff the booths from 10am to 10pm 365 days a year, spending 5,905.50 hours serving 136,292 visitors in fy25.
$78,842 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $978,608.
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.
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 $1.8M to $2.1M (+16%).
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 32% · 2018 23% · 2019 26% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 31% · 2023 35% · 2024 25% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Periann Pulliam
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $11k → $474k.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% 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
34% 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 UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 75% · 2019 42% · 2020 40% · 2021 35% · 2022 28% · 2023 54% — 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
54% of UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
99% of UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $346k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC
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
86% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC: 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 UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC?
- UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,469,206 to it, the largest being LOVE MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($450,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,469,206 in grants to UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC?
- LOVE MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC 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 25 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